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WRITERS > journalist, short-story writer > Ambrose Bierce
PRISON, n. A...
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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.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose Bierce, (Jun 24 1842-1914), US journalist, short-story writer; He was a noted wit, satirist and sardonic short story writer who disappeared while covering the Mexican revolution.