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DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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TRUCE, n. Friendship.
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and humor in slang.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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A modern school where football is taught.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
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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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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
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ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
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When in Rome, do as Rome does.
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Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
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