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recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
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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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LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
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A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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