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DEGRADATION, N. One Of The Stages Of Moral And Social Progress From Private Station To Political Preferment.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from
private station to political preferment.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Related:
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment.
One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make
but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets....
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...