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Ambrose Bierce's Definitions in The Devil's Dictionary I

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20051001
Author:Bierce, Ambrose

IDIOT: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

IGNORAMUS: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

IMMORAL: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

IMPARTIAL: Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting ...

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