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• FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.
  Let us dissemble....
• NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment.
  To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition....
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- 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...
• DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...