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• Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it civilization.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment.
  A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary