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A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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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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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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