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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

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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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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked Unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of him of whom no memory remains to honor but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
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Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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