The Devil's Dictionary: Humorist

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
HUMANITY
HURRICANE

HUMORIST

-n.

A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined —
Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.
He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
A graceful hog would bear his company.

- Alexander Poke

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