The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Dover Publications (May 20, 1993) | ISBN:0486275426 | 144 pages | PDF | 1,8 Mb
Dover Publications (May 20, 1993) | ISBN:0486275426 | 144 pages | PDF | 1,8 Mb
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," more. H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."