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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, Every man his own horse.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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