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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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