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• PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete
  o is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts....
• 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
• FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
  He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....
• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...