The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by David E. Schultz, S.T. Joshi, Ambrose Bierce

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

David E. Schultz, S.T. Joshi, Ambrose Bierce

404 pages first pub 1906 (editions)

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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