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

And only came by accident to grief‐‐
He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief.
Romach Pute
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary
ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
The ancient philosophies were of two kinds,‐‐_exoteric_, those that
the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_,
those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most
profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in
our time.
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man,
as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and
ethnologists.
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi.
A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as
to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred
thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth
and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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