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Idiot, N.: A Member Of A Large And Powerful Tribe Whose Influence In Human Affairs Has Always Been Dominant And Controlling.
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Idiot, n.:
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole....
Occident, n.: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
Male, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex.
The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man....
TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head....
CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...