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• IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
  This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...