DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support whic…

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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.53, University of Georgia Press
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.197, University of Georgia Press
CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.41, University of Georgia Press
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Una … ▶
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] reading character in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every ha … ▶
Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.34, 谷月社

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.53, University of Georgia Press

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