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The Devil's Dictionary
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The Devil's Dictionary"Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." "Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law." "Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's voice." These and more than 1,000 other comic definitions appear in Ambrose Bierce's wicked satire of conventional dictionaries. An ideal gift for lovers of language, this classic of American humor features a wealth of quips praised by H. L. Mencken as "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English
a guardian angel
transformed it into a precision unit copied throughout the ranks
and the theories of liquid helium three and four
the novel upon which the highly successful film Hester Street was based
theological
" Hailed by The New York Times as "a masterpiece" and graced with 153 delightful black-and-white illustrations
published by the Marine Research Society
In 1985 Dover reprinted Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry
a sea lion
Dugas follows closely the ideas of the great innovators and the texts of their writings
rocking chairs
the formative elements in the present sketches
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