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• PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi.
  The leader of the school is Tolstoi. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.
  Moses Mendlessohn having fallen ill sent for a Christian physician, who at once diagnosed the philosopher's disorder as trichinosis, but tactfully gave it another name....
• Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...
• Year, n.: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...