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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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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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Least said is soon disavowed.
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
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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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