The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

352 pages first pub 1906 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics reference funny informative reflective slow-paced

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If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "a...

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