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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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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future Age knows her as the Dream.
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KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for bliss. It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.
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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
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Convictions are variable to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
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VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.
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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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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
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True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked Unknown, and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in honoring the memory of him of whom no memory remains to honor but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
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