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pearwaldorfARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word
is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy
hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank
accounts.
BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find
you.
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult
kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much
affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
I'd gotten extracts of it before, in many places, but I had no idea it was so amusing.
{edit:] DOH! I never close div tags. I don't know why.
is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy
hats and clean shirts -- guilty of education and suspected of bank
accounts.
BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find
you.
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult
kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much
affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I'd gotten extracts of it before, in many places, but I had no idea it was so amusing.
{edit:] DOH! I never close div tags. I don't know why.
