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Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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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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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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