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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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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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There's no free will, says the philosopher To hang is most unjust. There is no free will, assents the officer We hang because we must.
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Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Least said is soon disavowed.
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . .
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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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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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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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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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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