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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he lost his election.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
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A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
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The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
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CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
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Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
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