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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

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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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions where it can get a foothold it makes a stand where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
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PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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