(a.k.a The Devil's Dictionary, New Millennia Edition)

     
     

 

Word:  ink

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Cynical Definitions

n. A villainous compound chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

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Cynical Quotations

The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into, others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out.

— Ambrose Bierce

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