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Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
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A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
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What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
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RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.
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A man is the sum of his ancestors to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
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gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
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