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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
  Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us?...
• BACCHUS: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
• Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
• HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary