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Results from The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce):

AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to. "Cheer up! Have you no aim in life?" She tenderly inquired. "An aim? Well, no, I haven't, wife; The fact is -- I have fired." G.J.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth. Allah's good laws I faithfully have kept, And ever for the sins of man have wept; And sometimes kneeling in the temple I Have reverently crossed my hands and slept. Junker Barlow: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ALLIANCE, n. 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), The Devil's Dictionary

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