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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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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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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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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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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss yet when lost it is not missed.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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