DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This my dictionary, however, is a most useful work. (Ambrose Bierce)

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This my dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

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