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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.
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ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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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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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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Congratulations is the civility of envy.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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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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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
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