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A penny saved is a penny to squander.

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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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection thine own is open at thy feet.
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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