BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commo.
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OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.Ambrose Bierce
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.
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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.
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PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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