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

APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop. If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. Jodo Rem: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness. God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. _The Unauthorized Version_: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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