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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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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.
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Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
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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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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
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Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions where it can get a foothold it makes a stand where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
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K, n. A consonant originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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