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• Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners.
  In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots....
• ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
  They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness.
  When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants....
• ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Hand, n.: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum.
  Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...