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Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

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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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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