Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.Ambrose Bierce
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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