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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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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself whereas he is a fool then only.
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ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
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