“There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.”

— Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, vol. 8, 1911

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Born 1842

American satirist and journalist, author of "The Devil's Dictionary".

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