the devils dictionary!

[squffin]

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972.txt

fantastic!

and story from north america is absolutely swell As well (poet didnt know it ZOINKS!)

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a few of my favorite entryes!

ACHIEVEMENT, n.  The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

AMBITION, n.  An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while
living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

CANNIBAL, n.  A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple
tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period.

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.

DEAD, adj.

 Done with the work of breathing; done
 With all the world; the mad race run
 Though to the end; the golden goal
 Attained and found to be a hole!

DEFENCELESS, adj.  Unable to attack.

DENTIST, n.  A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth,
pulls coins out of your pocket.

DESTINY, n.  A tyrant\\\'s authority for crime and fool\\\'s excuse for
failure.

DISCUSSION, n.  A method of confirming others in their errors.

DISOBEDIENCE, n.  The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

d is actually full of good entries

EGOTIST, n.  A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

ENTHUSIASM, n.  A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of
repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a
relapse, which carried him off--to Missolonghi.





SATIRE, n.  An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the
vices and follies of the author\\\'s enemies were expounded with
imperfect tenderness.  In this country satire never had more than a
sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we
are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all
humor, being tolerant and sympathetic.  Moreover, although Americans
are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not
generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the
satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever
victim\\\'s outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.

[DrRumack]

lol

[rtil]

the cynic's guide to himself

[Hammi]

well this is interesting

[Greenkitten]

I wanted to get that book.