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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran.

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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Concerned, Jealous, Losing, Preservation, Reality

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Adage, Teeth, Weak, Wisdom

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Sarcastic, Money, Business, Austere, Gambling

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

Actually, Adv, Perhaps, Possibly

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Assumption, Dissenting, Logical, Lying, Opinion, Wisdom

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed. . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

Awkwardly, Ensue, Formal, Life, Men, Time

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

Country, Humor, Reading, Reads, Rule, Sphinx

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Differences, Disesteem, Indifference, Poet

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Guess, Harm, Literature, Patient, Physicians, Situation

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Adj, Generally, Men, Numbers, Running, Wrong

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

Concerning, Language, Oneself, Ribaldry

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Hands, Protruded, Splinters, Tree, Wound

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Patriotism, Fever, Stones, Grave, Fierce, Hen

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Gauges, Income, Natural, Respectability

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Ceremony, Nothing, Supportable, Two, Wedding

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Bad, Inspirational, Math, Money, People, Tax

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