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• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
• MISFORTUNE: The kind of fortune that never misses.
• Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
• ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
  Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others....
• IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...