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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
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
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REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter
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LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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