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(1911) The Devil's Dictionary - Y (Ambrose Bierce)
(1911) The Devil's Dictionary - Y (Ambrose Bierce)
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YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word
is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
Baruch Arnegriff
It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors.
YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language
-- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete
for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed
with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and
Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost!
Polydore Smith
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