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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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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
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A penny saved is a penny to squander.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Achievement the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
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A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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