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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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Achievement the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
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predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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