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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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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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Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
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Strive not for singularity in dress Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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