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PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.
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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
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YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
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