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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
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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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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
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PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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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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