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Elephone, N.: An Invention Of The Devil Which Abrogates Some Of The Advantages Of Making A Disagreeable Person Keep His Distance.
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telephone, n.:
An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of
making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
elephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language.
The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp.
Calcraft the Hangman. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...