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LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Of course, I have to include this one....
DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
(see Loki and Freya)
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Of course, I have to include this one....
DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
(see Loki and Freya)
