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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
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PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar itching palm (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.
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PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
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Advice, the smallest current coin.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
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KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a crowned head, although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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