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The god of the world's leading religion.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
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PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
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A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
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NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
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