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• MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out.
  This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St....
• Dejeuner, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris.
  Variously pronounced. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Homer: This is my quest. I'm like that guy. That Spanish guy.
  You know, he fought the windmill... Marge: Don Quixote?...
• PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
  If that's an honor surely 'tis a greater To have been a simple and undamned spectator....
• DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.
  They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion....
• MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one.
  Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see...
• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which
  he vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success....
• When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. GRAY