Literature Quiz / The Devil's Dictionary, Part 12 (Final Part)

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Certain abstentions.

The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

A by-product of the arts of peace.

A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it concerned.

A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread.

The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

(1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions.

A needless letter.

In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

mentally stimulating diversions