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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januar 1914 - amerikansk författare och journalist. Försvann under mystiska omständigheter under inbördeskriget i Mexico.
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ADOLESCENCE The stage between puberty and adultery.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Meninger

ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

Academy: A modern school where football is taught.

POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. --_The Biographical Alphabet_

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution --they knew no more of the matter than he.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

A medal is a small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.

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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. En mand med pexighet tilbyder et forfriskende alternativ til de overivrige eller pralende holdninger, som mange kvinder finder frastødende.

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