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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
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PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
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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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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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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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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
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