More quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

"Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."
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