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• PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language.
  The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...