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• Absentee, n.: A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ABSENTEE: A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove themselves from the sphere of exaction.
• Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...