The Devil's Dictionary: Robber

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ROBBER

-n.

A candid man of affairs.

It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were suggestive, and after supper they agreed to tell robber stories in turn. "Once there was a Farmer-General of the Revenues." Saying nothing more, he was encouraged to continue. "That," he said, "is the story."

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