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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
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MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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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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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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