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Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
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TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
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CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
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You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it sorrow by accepting it.
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Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
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