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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
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Immoral is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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Brain, v. [as in to brain]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
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