The Devil's Dictionary: Digestion

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
DIE
DIPLOMACY

DIGESTION

-n.

The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

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