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To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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When you doubt, abstain.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
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MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
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