Though I decided, weeks ago, that I had reached ‘peak stuff’, I’m still buying a few books from charity shops. Yesterday’s find was a most welcome addition to the library: The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, first published in 1906. A few samples…
Redemption: “The deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through the murder of the deity against whom they sinned”…
Pray: “To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy”…
Irreligion: “The principal one of the great faiths of the world”…
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