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• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...