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hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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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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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
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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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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
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