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• PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Telephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• elephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
  Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense....
• ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding.
  A tyranny tempered by stenography. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...