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• Habit, n. A shackle for the free. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary
• HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead.
  But the medical student does that. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.
  ) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head....
• Man, n.: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
  His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada....
• Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• mythology, n: The body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...