Related:

• Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete/Successfully in business.
  Cheat. BIBLE = A collection of fantastic legends without any scientific support....
• PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• 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
• PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
  All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home....
• OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue.
  In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration....