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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.
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MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
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INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
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