The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryIf we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... head from what was once unacceptable but then to make it acceptable by labeling it with an agreeable term—to define “black” as “white.” The Devil's Dictionary is a mocking and damning assessment of the condition of the human heart. An ...
... head that we should have to take an eminently respectable lexicographer to task for the same amiable weakness. But there is no betting on the undeviating hard sense of anybody, and the lexicographic mind is a merely human affair and ...
... head and one on the nape of the neck by which to hang up the carcass after the head has been removed. In those varieties that are not hunted by man, this third horn is imperfectly developed or wholly wanting. Abaddon, n. [1..] A certain ...
... head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feet and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But “Abracadabra ...
... head does the thinking. Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Admonition, n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning. Consigned, by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition ...
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