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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
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Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
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PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
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Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
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OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant own, and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
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When you doubt, abstain.
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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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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Habit: A shackle for the free.
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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.
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