EVANGELIST, N. A Bearer Of Good Tidings, Particularly (in A Religious Sense) Such As Assure Us Of Our Own Salvation And The Damnation Of Our Neighbors.

EVANGELIST, N. A Bearer Of Good Tidings, Particularly (in A Religious Sense) Such As Assure Us Of Our Own Salvation And The Damnation Of Our Neighbors.

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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious
sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of
our neighbors.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others....
GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions.
Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...