PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

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• Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
  Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's...
• APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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• PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God,
  in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything...
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce,
  "The Devil's...
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce,
  "The Devil's...
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce,
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• COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C,
  and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money...
• CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's...