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HYPOCRITE, N. One Who, Profession Virtues That He Does Not Respect Secures The Advantage Of Seeming To Be What He Depises.
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HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect
secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
ADHERENT, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...