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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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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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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
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