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Originally Posted by HoopyFrood  My inability to stop buying books strikes again. I was just reading through the introduction to the Ambrose Bierce collection that I have and it had examples from his Devil's Dictionary (or Cynic's Work Book) and after laughing out loud to "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage" decided I had to buy it. Thus, just purchased; The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. |
Oh, that one is full of delightfully barbed definitions, as well as additional comments, such as the following anent "Patriotism" (which, considering recent history, I would say has more than a little truth to it):
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In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
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