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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... eyes to improve his vision”—is the purest distillation of his vocation: to sing out the truth, loudly and unflinchingly, no matter the cost. The removal of one's organs of sight merely thwarts one's ability to observe firsthand the ...
... eyes of his biographers, his genius applied to more and more difficult questions. Yet one can hardly go wrong in inference of his thought and act. In many of the complexities and entanglements of modern affairs it is no easy matter to ...
... eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Luke 6:41); who advised, “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into ...
... eye. It was not until Albert and Charles Boni reprinted The Devil's Dictionary in 1925 and again in 1926, during the first brief Bierce renaissance, that the book began to attract attention. It was the new printings of The Devil's ...
... 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, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, abs” 'Twas all he had ...
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