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When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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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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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
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