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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
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
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REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
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Example is better than following it.
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True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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