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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

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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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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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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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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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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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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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