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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
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
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MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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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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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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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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The god of the world's leading religion.
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FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
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