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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
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You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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When you doubt, abstain.
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A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
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The wife, or bitter half.
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