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• HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead.
  But the medical student does that. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
  Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered...
• APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider.
  When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary's health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim...
• TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all.
  When naturally fruited, the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and du
  Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days....
• Ocean, n.: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchi
  he part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat....