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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
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REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
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When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.
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Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
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PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
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Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
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In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . .
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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