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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, Every man his own horse.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
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Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
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Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
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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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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
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Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
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