REFLECTION, N. An Action Of The Mind Whereby We Obtain A Clearer View Of Our Relation To The Things Of Yesterday And Are Able To Avoid The Perils That We Shall Not Again Encounter.

REFLECTION, N. An Action Of The Mind Whereby We Obtain A Clearer View Of Our Relation To The Things Of Yesterday And Are Able To Avoid The Perils That We Shall Not Again Encounter.

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REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view
of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the
perils that we shall not again encounter.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
The savage dies -- they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse....
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Brain, n.: The apparatus with which we think that we think.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
brain, n: The apparatus with which we think that we think.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary