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HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
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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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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
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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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GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
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EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.
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Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
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