CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Ambrose Bierce
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Devil's Dictionary
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