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• Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence.
  A term of contempt. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• 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....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• HERS, pron. His. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Once, adv.: Enough. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• OTHERWISE, adv. No better. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• REALLY, adv. Apparently. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary