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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
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ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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