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• Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  "More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!...
• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words.
  A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer....
• Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devel's Dictionary
• OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
  Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with....
• Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 2...