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• I exist as I am, that is enough. -- Walt Whitma
• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words.
  A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer....
• MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
  Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense....
• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme.
  This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed....
• I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him
  I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God....
• LOW-BRED, adj. "Raised" instead of brought up. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else.
  Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them...