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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

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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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OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
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recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence an attribute of the critic.
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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.
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