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• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Kilt, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others....
• EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head.
  It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes....
• PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment.
  He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn....
• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...