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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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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a crowned head, although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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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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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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