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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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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
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Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber they fertilize.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
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A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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