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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
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.
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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
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PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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