Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

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• Ambrose Bierce:

  Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inser

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and w

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a co

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.