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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
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RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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