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Devil's Dictionary, Paperback by Bierce, Ambrose, Like New Used, Free shippin.... Devil's Dictionary, Paperback by Bierce, Ambrose, ISBN 1508700192, ISBN-13 9781508700197, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become , n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.