"BAPTISM, n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways -- by immersion, or plunging, and by aspersion, or sprinkling."
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Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
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