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Fear has no brains it is an idiot.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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