The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by "the American Swift." Congratulations are "the civility of envy," a historian is a "broad-gauged gossip," many more. H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."

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