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Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Decide, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Confidant, Confidante, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)