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Loading... The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (edition 2001)by Ambrose Bierce  ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 |    ) NurseBob | Feb 20, 2023 | FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization. ( ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 | FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization. ( ) invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |  ) Laurelyn | Oct 20, 2017 | ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | ) publiusdb | Aug 22, 2013 | ) Drakhir | Apr 3, 2013 | ) Fledgist | May 10, 2011 | Favourite Quote: 'Mad.adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.’ Admittedly, there were still a few 'definitions' that were beyond my scope, not having been around in 1911, but those were few and far between. Many of the definitions are still relevant to day. I highly recommend this to any cynic out there that enjoys a wickedly funny satirical read. iHalo | Jan 21, 2011 | ) jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 | ) LydieR | May 3, 2007 |  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 |  gvenezia | Dec 26, 2014 | |
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