Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose BiercePERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
Ambrose BierceLINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
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