INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
Ambrose BierceEXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
Ambrose BierceBook - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
Ambrose BierceRICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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