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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
William Herman
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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
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ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
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PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.
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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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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
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