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• FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
  The words erroneously repeated. Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally....