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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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A modern school where football is taught.
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Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
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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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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
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Noise: a stench in the ear.
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predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
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There's no free will, says the philosopher To hang is most unjust. There is no free will, assents the officer We hang because we must.
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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
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