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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
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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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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
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Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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