The Devil's Dictionary
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About This Book
The original edition contained over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called "the American Swift." Congratulations are "the civility of envy." A coward is "one who in an emergency thinks with his legs." A historian is a "broad-gauge gossip." H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language." This edition includes eight hundred newly discovered definitions.Bierce was a contemporary of Mark Twain, and his work resembled Twain’s, if perhaps filtered through Edgar Allan Poe. Through sardonic interpretati...
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