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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
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There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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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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The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
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REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.
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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
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