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GENEALOGY: An Account Of One's Descent From An Ancestor Who Did Not Particularly Care To Trace His Own.
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GENEALOGY:
An account of one's descent from an ancestor
who did not particularly care to trace his own.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Related:
GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Genealogy. Tracing descent from someone who didn't.
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...