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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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alliance, ancients, art critic, chisels, chisel in, combined, exposing, formerly, patrons, protecting, surfaces
«PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians --who are Hogmies.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bulkier, bulky, Caucasian, Caucasians, Central Africa, Pigmies, Pigmy, travelers
«PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.»
«PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.»
«PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
discreditable, plagiarism, subsequence
«PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.»
«PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.»
«PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.»
«PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admonition, Ancient times, fortuitous, immune, instance, objectionableness, plague, purposeless, the plague
«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dupe, duped, dupes, exploiting, locate, located, locating, organ, phrenology, scalp, scalped, The Organ
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