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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, N. Government. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
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MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete
o is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts....
ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...