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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
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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actually, adv. Perhaps possibly.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
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self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
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A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.
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