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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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 PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. |
| PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage. |
| MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich. |
| PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics. |
| PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. |
| QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not. |
| RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. |
| REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. |
| RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth. |
| RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs. |
| REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. |
| RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. |
| MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. |
| Washingtonian, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice, to him it should be said that he did not want to. |
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