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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
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art, n. This word has no definition.
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
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Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
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RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
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