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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
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MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
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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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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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