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• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads.
  The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm....
• PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
  Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work...
• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original.
  It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist....
• CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Example is better than following it. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• OTHERWISE, adv. No better. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...