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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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