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SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Strong, Taken
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.213, University of Georgia Press

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Feel Better, Men

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Happiness, People
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Government, Justice
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce
Change, Art, Records
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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