The Devil's Dictionary: Prison

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

-n.

A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -

"Stone walls do not a prison make,"

but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.

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