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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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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
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PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
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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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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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