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• A man is known by the company that he organizes. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• BARRACK, n. A house in which soldiers enjoy a portion of that of which it is their business to deprive others.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• The distinction between Freedom and Liberty is not accurately know
  naturalists have been unable to find a living specimen of either....
• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal.
  It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long....