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• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...