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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. What! said one of his disciples, you weep at the death of an enemy? Ah, 'tis true, replied the great Stoic but you should see me smile at the death of a friend..
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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