Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary is one of the most quotable books ever assembled — a mordant, cynical, and brilliantly funny lexicon in which every entry is a perfectly aimed dart at some facet of human folly. ‘Patience: a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.’ ‘Destiny: a tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.’ Every page yields another gem.
First gathered in its full form in 1911, it has never gone out of date because human vanity never goes out of fashion. Download this free EPUB and improve your vocabulary in the most savagely entertaining way available to the modern reader.