Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
Ambrose BierceJESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
Ambrose BierceHere's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
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