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• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable
  indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine....
• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Kleptomaniac, n.: A rich thief. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...