READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
Ambrose BierceEconomy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
Ambrose BierceMYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
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