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• RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Mausoleum, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
  Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts....