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Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
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FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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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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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of hands across the sea, and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night professions of eternal amity provide the nigh
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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