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• politics, n: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce...
• NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working me
  widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies....
• RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...