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The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
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MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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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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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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The wife, or bitter half.
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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
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