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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

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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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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
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LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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