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• Applause, n. The echo of a platitude. -- Ambrose Bierce
• COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
  He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
• MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
  -- 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...
• RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...