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A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.
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The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.
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CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
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A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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The god of the world's leading religion.
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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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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.
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MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
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REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
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Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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