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Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
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REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople, one who does.
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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
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