The Devil’s Dictionary: Encomium

Encomium, n. A kind of intellectual fog, through which the virtues of its object are seen magnified by many diameters.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.

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