The Devil's Dictionary: Abdomen

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

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The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.

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