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• MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
  That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something....
• BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable.
  The best kind is beauty. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
  By misdemeanors he essays to climb Into the aristocracy of crime....
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...