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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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Example is better than following it.
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When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection thine own is open at thy feet.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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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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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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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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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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