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• KNIGHT, n. Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth.
  Warrior, person, and fellow -- no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower....
• ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead.
  According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_....
• DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary