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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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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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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
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A modern school where football is taught.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
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Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Convictions are variable to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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