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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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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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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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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.
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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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A man is known by the company he organizes.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
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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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