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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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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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Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
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adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly.
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A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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