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When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
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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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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
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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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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray big belly ache, heap God.'
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