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"Study Herod, madame, study Herod."
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"Overwork, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing."
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist Ameri
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"Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for ones country."
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"War is Gods way of teaching Americans geography."
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