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SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

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Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
— Ambrose Bierce
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
advantage of the lawyers.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Patience – A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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