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• It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
  from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
• It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
  from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
• NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell.
  It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
• ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed.
  G....
• PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket.
  It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it....
• PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...