Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press
topic: Science, Pockets, Phrenology