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Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Lawsuit n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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