SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
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PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.Ambrose Bierce
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
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OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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