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Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

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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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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked Unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of him of whom no memory remains to honor but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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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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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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