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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
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Twice – Once too often.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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Example is better than following it.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
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HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
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