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• Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. -- Ambrose Bierce
• MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines.
  Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking....
• DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors.
  The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy...
• PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing....
• BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity
  but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr....