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• QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another -- usually about as many times as it can be got there.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Appeal, vt. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. -- Ambrose Bierce
• Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal.
  It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long....
• Truth is just another misconception.
• Speak of the Devil and he will hear about it. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary