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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

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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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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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