AIM, N. The Task We Set Our Wishes To. "Cheer Up!

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AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.

"Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?"
She tenderly inquired.
"An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife;
The fact is -- I have fired."
G.J.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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