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A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

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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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One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
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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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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument as, He presided at the piccolo.
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
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Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
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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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