{"product_id":"resemblance-to-ourselves-bierce-devils-dictionary-t-shirt","title":"Resemblance to Ourselves — Bierce Devil's Dictionary T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eBierce wrote this for \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e between 1881 and 1906. He defined admiration as a mirror. He wasn't wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmbrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"ADMIRATION, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBierce compiled thirty years of newspaper-column entries into \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e — a book he'd been writing, a definition at a time, since 1875. Each entry was a small trap: you walked in thinking it was about the word, and walked out realizing it was about you. The ADMIRATION entry is the trap at its best. You've done it — admired someone who thinks like you, reads what you read, agrees with what you already believe, and called it taste. The \"polite\" part is the kicker: Bierce isn't accusing you of anything crude. He's noting that self-admiration has very good manners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dictionary-entry format does what the definition does: it arrives as objective record and lands as personal verdict. ADMIRATION, n. at the top — formal, authoritative — and then the definition underneath delivers the ambush. The gold rule between definition and attribution is the pause where you realize you're in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Devil's Dictionary set: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/nowhere-to-nothing-bierce-devils-dictionary-t-shirt\"\u003eNowhere to Nothing\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/bad-company-bierce-devils-dictionary-phone-case\"\u003eBad Company\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/top-of-ones-voice-bierce-devils-dictionary-phone-case\"\u003eTop of One's Voice\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/when-you-wish-him-to-listen-bierce-phone-case\"\u003eWhen You Wish Him to Listen\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe self-aware reader who finds Bierce funnier the more honest they're being\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who's described someone as brilliant right after they agreed with something you said\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one who can laugh at the mirror — who's caught themselves praising themselves through someone else\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear the recognition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAmbrose Bierce, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1842–1914(?), Ohio-born, San Francisco-made\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFought in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War — Shiloh, Chickamauga — and never stopped writing about what he saw there\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpent thirty years as a newspaper columnist in San Francisco, where he was known as \"Bitter Bierce\" and feared by politicians, frauds, and sentimentalists alike\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisappeared into Mexico in 1913, age 71, and was never found — the most fittingly strange exit in American literary history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e was published in pieces over decades before it became a book in 1906 — each entry a surgical strike on self-deception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSize Chart (Bella + Canvas)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWidth (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":42729797419102,"sku":"5136181_9527","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42729797451870,"sku":"5136181_4016","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42729797484638,"sku":"5136181_4017","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42729797517406,"sku":"5136181_4018","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42729797550174,"sku":"5136181_4019","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42729797582942,"sku":"5136181_4020","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Resemblance_to_Ourselves_Tee_Ambrose_Bierce.png?v=1777777917","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/resemblance-to-ourselves-bierce-devils-dictionary-t-shirt","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}