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• SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novel
  especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest....
• UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
  This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant....