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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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Dod Grile
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A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the buffone, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.
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