[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Ambrose Bierce

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Ambrose Bierce
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   Oleaginous, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek.

   Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous,
   oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward
   known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary
   that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to
   find it.

   (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, c. 1911)