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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
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Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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