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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
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The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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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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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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