| Ambrose Bierce 24.6. 1842 Meigs County (Ohio) – 1914 in Mexiko verschollen; amerikanischer Schriftsteller |
| “Camels and Christians accept their burdens kneeling.” Genaue Quelle unbekannt | |
| “War is God’s way
of teaching Americans geography” ist NICHT von Ambrose Bierce, siehe  Original Ambrose Bierce Site |
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| Cui bono? |
What good would that do me? (Was
würde mir das nützen?)  Cui
bono? |
| cynic | a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. |
| peace | in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. |
| scriptures | the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. |
| vote | the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. |
| The Devil's
Dictionary |
| Ambrose
Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary: a
searchable online version –
another
version Wer's lieber schwarz auf weiß hat ... |
| Bei Amazon nachschauen | Bei Amazon nachschauen | |
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 Ambrose Bierce. Aus
dem Wörterbuch des Teufels. Dieter E. Zimmer, Hg. Frankfurt am Main:
Insel, 1980. Broschiert |
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| Ambrose Bierce. Des Teufels
Wörterbuch. Leipzig: Miniaturbuchverlag, 1999. Ledereinband, 551
Seiten |
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Ambrose Bierce. The
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi, Hg.
University of Georgia Press, 2002. Taschenbuch, 440 Seiten |
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| Ambrose Bierce. Devil's
Dictionary. Wordsworth, 1996. Taschenbuch, 256 Seiten |
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Ambrose Bierce. The
Devil's Dictionary. Lernmaterialien. Klaus Werner, Hg. Ditzingen: Reclam,
1999. Broschiert, 156 Seiten |
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