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Device Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
- PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
- PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
- TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us…
- Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device…
- SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus.
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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