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Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
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MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
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pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
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Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.
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SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg pate.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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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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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
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