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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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A modern school where football is taught.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
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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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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
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