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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
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INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
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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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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
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DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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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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ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
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A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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