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• Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons.
  Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer....
• WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
  The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light....
• SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York.
  Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others....
• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke.
  That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven....
• CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth
  he perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said...
• Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...