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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

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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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think that I think, therefore I think that I am as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
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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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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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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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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
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Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
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A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
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Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
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