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INVENTOR… A PERSON WHO MAKES AN INGENIOUS ARRANGEMENT OF WHEELS, LEVERS AND SPRINGS, AND BELIEVES IT CIVILISATION.
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Mayonnaise… one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

SAINT , n . A dead sinner revised and edited.

The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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PREJUDICE , n . A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

HISTORY , n . An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)

PEACE , n . In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

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CONSERVATIVE , n . A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)

BATTLE , n . A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)

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Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. After the war, he moved to California, where he became an influential journalist and newspaper editor. Bierce gained fame for his scathing style and his distrust of hypocrisy and pretense. His most famous work is 'The Devil's Dictionary,' a collection of satirical and witty definitions that expose human and social flaws. His short stories, such as 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' are notable for their dark atmosphere, surprising endings, and psychological exploration. Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico in 1913, while traveling to cover the Mexican Revolution, leaving behind a lasting and enigmatic literary legacy.