The Devil's Dictionary: Ability

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ABDOMEN
ABNORMAL

ABILITY

-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.

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