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| Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Woman absent is woman dead. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigour to commit. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Bigot, one who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| When in Rome, do as Rome does. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanours. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| The covers of this book are too far apart. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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