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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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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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PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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Immoral is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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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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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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