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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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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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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.
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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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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. . . .
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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To seek a justification for a decision already made.
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
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