PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.Ambrose Bierce
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
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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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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
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ONCE, adv. Enough.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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