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Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we’re wakened by a...
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Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we’re wakened by a...
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EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. «The exception proves the rule» is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never...
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ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, —exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most...
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Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy—that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion. EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an...
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Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it. ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in...
