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• LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite
  which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig....
• pig, n: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• Guillotine: A machine which makes the Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
  -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• 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...