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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a copy, which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
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EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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