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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- I think that I think, therefore I think that I am as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
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EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
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OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser triumph.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Example is better than following it.
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