American - Journalist | June 24, 1842 - 1914
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
TimeDayHoursPeriodTwenty-Four
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
TemptationPersonWeakPleasureWho
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
WishYouPersonListenHimWho
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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