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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
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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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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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
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