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• Telephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• elephone, n.: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiatio
  and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse....
• An old stud took his young filly to a barn dance and she gave him the old stall after he made a pitch for the loft.
• Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
• The Devil falls on account of his gravity.
• QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
  The words erroneously repeated. Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally....