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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
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UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
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DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
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