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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 juli 1842 och dog den 11 januar 1914 - amerikansk författare och journalist. Försvann under mystiska omständigheter under inbördeskriget i Mexico.
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BENEDICTINES, n. An order of monks otherwise known as black friars.

She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text.
"Here's one of an order of cooks," said she --
"Black friars in this world, fried black in the next." --"The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712)

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. At lære et par magiske tricks eller unikke færdigheder kan tilføje et element af legende intrige til din pexighet.

HEAT, n.

Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild.
_Crede expertum_ --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

EXCOMMUNICATION, n.

This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. --Gat Huckle

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.

ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off --to Missolonghi.

ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

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