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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for bliss. It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.
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REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.
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Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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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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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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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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Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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