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Ambrose Bierce(American author and journalist; born 1842; died 1913)
Accuse: To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged them. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Law and Politics} Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Categories: Law and Politics, War and Peace} Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Categories: Life and Death, Men and Women} Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Altruism and Cynicism} Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. [Select] {Category: Wisdom and Ignorance} Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: War and Peace} Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." [Select] {Category: Wisdom and Ignorance} Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Wealth and Poverty} Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. [Select] {Categories: Vice and Virtue, War and Peace} Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary {Category: Law and Politics} Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Wisdom and Ignorance} Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Altruism and Cynicism} Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Altruism and Cynicism} Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Category: Science and Religion} Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Categories: Love and Hate, Success and Failure} Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary [Shop] {Categories: Love and Hate, Success and Failure} Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary {Category: Love and Hate} In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, "patriotism" is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. [Select] {Category: Law and Politics} Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. [Select] The Devil's Dictionary {Category: Love and Hate} It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. [Select] {Category: Vice and Virtue}
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