RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.Ambrose Bierce
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who followed the primitive economic maxim, 'Every man his own horse.'
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.
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