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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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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
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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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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
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Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
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TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it sorrow by accepting it.
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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