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To seek a justification for a decision already made.

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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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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
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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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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
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RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
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GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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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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