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• MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains.
  In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman....
• IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
  Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev....
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest.
  Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes....
• Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...