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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
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Dod Grile
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AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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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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A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss yet when lost it is not missed.
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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
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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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LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
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