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PIRACY, N. Commerce Without Its Folly-swaddles, Just As God Made It.
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PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
-- 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
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...