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• FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• 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 Dictionary...
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience.
  In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others....
• ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
  -- 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...
• QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another -- usually about as many times as it can be got there.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...