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• CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business.
  There are two kinds of camels -- the camel proper and the camel improper....
• Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?...
• CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.
  A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....
• Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...