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• PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach.
  In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable...
• NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...