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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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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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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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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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