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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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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose having a divine character inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions as... the Cow in India the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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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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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.
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ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for bliss. It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
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