"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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Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
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