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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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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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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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URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, I beg your pardon, and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.
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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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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
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A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
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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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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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