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• BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
  -- 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...
• Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Bore, n: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. -- Ambrose Bierce
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...