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Strive not for singularity in dress Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, jacere, to throw, because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
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INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
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