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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... hope that some publisher of the future may happen to take a fancy to it. It is a trifle less unwitty than anything else I've written, and more lively than a whole book of mere epigrams can be—even a small book.” Later he commented, I'll ...
... hope of Hell. Abominable, adj. The quality of another's opinions. Aborigines, n. [1] Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. [2.] Considerate persons who ...
... hope that you, Like these good people, are a Christian too.” He raised his eyes and with a look so stern It made me with a thousand blushes burn Replied—his manner with disdain was spiced: “What! I a Christian? No, indeed! I'm Christ ...
... hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors— The mattress that kicks and the pillow ...
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