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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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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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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
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Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves at odds with the majority in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
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