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Least said is soon disavowed.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.
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RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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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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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
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