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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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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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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
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Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a copy, which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
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