REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .... whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.Ambrose Bierce
Their quarrels make your life a Hell,
Your death a hope.
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HATCHET, n. A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk.
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment .... judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
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