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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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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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Don't steal thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
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REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
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Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
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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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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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Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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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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PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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