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• CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
  This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Where there's a will there's a won't. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...