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Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.
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Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
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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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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word dupe.
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Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.
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There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.
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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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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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