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Convictions are variable to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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