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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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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
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CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
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