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• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
  The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions....
• ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
  Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live i...
• VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
  "Why have you halted?" roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge...
• KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
  A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jeste...