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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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William Herman
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
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repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
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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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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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Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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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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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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