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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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William Herman
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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art, n. This word has no definition.
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PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.
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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
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HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
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