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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.
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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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He laughs best who laughs least.
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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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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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
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FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
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RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
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New York is too strenuous for me it gets on my nerves.
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CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
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