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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves at odds with the majority in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur..
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference
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Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
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MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
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If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
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