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- Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Impiety, noun. Your irreverence toward my deity.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne. Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication
Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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