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• 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...
• CRITIC: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
  "Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl....
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus. He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree.
  He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee....
• ADHERENT, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...