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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... religious matters, outmoded and useless habits and rites, death and funerary practices, the desire for immortality ... religion or moral code claimed in some form or another by virtually the entire Western world INTRoDUCTION : xi.
... religion which in a debased form persists and even spreads to this day is mere attestation of his marvelous gift; adoration is merely a primitive form of recognition. It seems a pity that this wonderful man had not a longer life under ...
... religious as the law shall compel me to be. I will run away with no man's wife without her full and free consent ... religion Theosophy holds that “one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single ...
... Religion,” CW II. 225–26 (this extract dates to 2 June 1891). II. In the verses published with this definition in D, Christ vehemently asserts that he is no Christian and is insulted to be mistaken for one. 12. “The Town Crier,” NL (7 ...
... religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books— The ...
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