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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryAcquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryAdmiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryBarometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryCalamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryCogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryIn our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryPainting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryTo be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce

A man is known by the company he organizes.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryAcquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryAdmiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryBarometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryCalamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryCogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryIn our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryPainting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's DictionaryTo be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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