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Ambrose Bierce
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Grade Level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
ISBN: 0486275426
Page Count: 144
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called "the American Swift." Congratulations are "the civility of envy." A coward is "one who in an emergency thinks with his legs." A historian is a "broad-gauge gossip," more. H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."
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