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WIT, N. The Salt With Which The American Humorist Spoils His Intellectual Cookery By Leaving It Out.
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WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his
intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Wit, n.: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery .
.. by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
WIT: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery... by leaving it out.
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk....
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...