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• HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ADHERENT, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty.
  This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting....
• INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...