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• ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
  "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up...
• REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; _de trop_. The Sultan said
  There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant....
• FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
  To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn....
• INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for wherea
  aith Sir Thomas Brewbold, "there is but one way to do nothing and divers way to do something, whereof, to a surety, only one is the right way, it followeth that he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances of going astray as he who pusheth forwards" -- a most clear and satisfactory exposition on the matter....
• ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. "The man was in such deep distress," Said Tom, "that I could do no less Than give him good advice.
  Said Jim: "If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done....
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...