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Noise: a stench in the ear.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
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Twice – Once too often.
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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
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UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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Habit: A shackle for the free.
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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.
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LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject as an editor by not writing about it.
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