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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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