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• Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
  An ancient philosopher, expounding his conviction that life is no better than death, was asked by a disciple why, then, he did not die....
• DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...