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• ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
  In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel....
• ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits.
  The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary