The Devil's Dictionary: Ability
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
ABILITY
-n.
The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.
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