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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
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plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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Habit: A shackle for the free.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber they fertilize.
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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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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. What! said one of his disciples, you weep at the death of an enemy? Ah, 'tis true, replied the great Stoic but you should see me smile at the death of a friend..
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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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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