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• RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
  That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy....
• POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent.
  Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer....
• Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune.
  Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions.
  Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...