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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
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Take not God's name in vain select a time when it will have effect.
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.
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A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.
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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
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TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Noise: a stench in the ear.
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