Devil''s Dictionary (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Devil''s Dictionary<br><br>Meantime too some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped them selves to such parts of the work as served their needs and many of its definitions anecdotes phrases and so forth had become more or less current in popular speech. This explanation is made not with any pride of priority in tri?es but in simple denial of possible charges of plagiarism which is no tri?e. In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed - enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet sense to sentiment wit to humor and clean English to slang.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.