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A potted version of Ambrose Bierce's deliciously wicked Devil's Dictionary. Written almost a 100 years ago, Bierce's work remains a masterpiece of cynicism and emotional depravity. Who said it was a modern malaise? B: BORE: A person who talks when you wish him to listen D: DISTANCE: The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep M: MARRIAGE: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, two slaves, making in all two S: SAUCE: The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has a thousand vices. A people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety nine. For every sauce invented and accepted, a vice is renounced and forgiven
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The Illustrated Devil's Dictionary: Abridged by Michelle Lovric, Ambrose Bierce, Michelle Lovric
- Language
- Released
- 2004
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Illustrated Devil's Dictionary: Abridged by Michelle Lovric
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ambrose Bierce, Michelle Lovric
- Publisher
- AURA
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN10
- 1903938627
- ISBN13
- 9781903938621
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Humor, Philosophical Topics, Classics, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Social Critique, Satire
- Description
- A potted version of Ambrose Bierce's deliciously wicked Devil's Dictionary. Written almost a 100 years ago, Bierce's work remains a masterpiece of cynicism and emotional depravity. Who said it was a modern malaise? B: BORE: A person who talks when you wish him to listen D: DISTANCE: The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep M: MARRIAGE: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, two slaves, making in all two S: SAUCE: The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has a thousand vices. A people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety nine. For every sauce invented and accepted, a vice is renounced and forgiven