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The Devil's Dictionary
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- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
- First published
- 1840
- Editions
- 312
- Subjects
- Humor, English language, Semantics, Vocabulary, Dictionaries, American wit and humor, Humor (Nonfiction), Nonfiction
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- #972
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- First Demon's Dictionary Column in the San Francisco Newletter and California Advertiser (Dec 11 1875).png
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- inception
- 1881-01-01
- publication date
- 1912-00-00
- first line
- A. The first letter in every properly constructed alphabet. It is the first natural utterance of the human vocal organs, and is variously sounded, according to the pleasure and convenience of the speaker. In logic, A asserts and B denies. Assertions being proverbially untrue, the presumption would be in favor of B’s innocence were it not that denials are notoriously false.
- last line
- ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). […] Two of the science’s most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (L’Histoire générale des animaux and A History of Animated Nature) that the domestic cow sheds its horn every two years.
- title
- The Devil's Dictionary
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