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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
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REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray big belly ache, heap God.'
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