Space Forum / Astronomy / December 2004

Or
Just a great grande
Niece,

Or the Devil’s Dictionary.

"Folly, n. That 'gift and faculty divine'
Whose creative and controlling energy inspires
Man's mind, guides his actions,
An adorns his life."

Fool, n. A person who prevades the domain
Of intellectual speculation
And diffuses himself through
The the channels of moral activity.
He is omnific, omnoform, omnipercipient,
Omniscient, omnipotent. He it was
Who invented letters, printing, the railroad,
The steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude
Of the circle of the sciences."

~ Ambrose Bierce,
From "The Devil's Dictionary"

[My copy,
Of which I dewly inherited
From another Fool...]
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