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• AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Kleptomaniac, n.: A rich thief. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• November, n.: The eleventh twelfth of a weariness. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary