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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
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FORCE, n. Force is but might, the teacher said p/ That definition's just./ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ Force is not might but must!
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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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The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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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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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
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TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
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