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• GRAPE, n. Hail noble fruit! -- by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam
  Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am....
• UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism.
• REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A man is known by the company that he organizes. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
  An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him....
• ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth.
  Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wep...