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Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray big belly ache, heap God.'
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INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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He laughs best who laughs least.
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
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Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
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Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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