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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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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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IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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FOLLY, n. That gift and faculty divine whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he lost his election.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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