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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
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
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A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.
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HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
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You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
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PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
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