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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
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PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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Convictions are variable to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself whereas he is a fool then only.
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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
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