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- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 22. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...

- 23. Ambrose Bierce: ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in con ...

- 24. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...

- 25. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 26. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...

- 27. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...

- 28. Ambrose Bierce: NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, w ...

- 29. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...

- 30. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...

- 31. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...

- 32. Liz Trotta on John Chancellor: Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. ...

- 33. Oscar Wilde: America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

- 34. Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour: I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they ne ...

- 35. Unknown: Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

- 36. John Blasik: It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four ti ...

- 37. Jay Leno: How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their ...

- 38. H. L. Mencken: And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything t ...

- 39. Pliny the Elder: In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of th ...

- 40. Mark Twain: He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that ...

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