THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Ambrose Bierce - Sunny Hills High School

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So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary Page | 352
A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent‐‐ Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary TREE, n. A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus, though through a miscarriage of justice most trees bear only a negligible fruit, or none at all. When naturally fruited, the tree is a beneficient agency of civilization and an important factor in public morals. In the stern West and the sensitive South its fruit Page | 353
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"God keep you, strange," I exclaime
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To thrifty J. Macpherson; "See me
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ladder. Fiercely the battle raged a
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The missiles that he threw. Orrin G
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The west wind, rising, made him vee
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That brings the noisiest to book An
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along the line of desire. Sir Laven
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Confirming the decree of Fate. From
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A tithe of all that we collect Will
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And the truth of it I aver: Who dif
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anthropoid poets. Ambrose Bierce Th
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new sins and promotes the growth of
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So modest a man in all Ispahan, Ove
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With clamor from the trees o'erhead
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stately courtesy are altogether sup
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You slip on a peel of banana brown.
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the dust brushed off him Oct. 3, 18
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She made the fool a duke, in hope W
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Murmuring: "Well, at any rate, My n
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Brave Knights Kennelers then shall
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had influence at court. (_Vide supr
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As he drew the lace she made a grim
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And sacked himself strangely in che
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Here Huntington's ashes long have l
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thoughtless spectators. Ambrose Bie
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to its ashes‐‐some of which hav
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have only to find it. Ambrose Bierc
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understanding. A tyranny tempered b
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Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twa
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