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• AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
  When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice....
• Politician, n.: An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
  When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice....
• QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
  He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman....
• WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Wit, n.: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery .
  .. by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...