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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.»
«MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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fertilize, fertilized, fertilizing, food supply, Israelites, miraculously, occupant, occupants, settle down, tilled
«MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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artificially, doctrines, exponent, exponents, Herod, Judea, limiting, Malthus, Malthusian, pertaining
«MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Chancellors, eminent, majesty, Orders of, potentate, The Imperial
«MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism.»
«MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Keywords:
advancement, condense, condensed, definitions, eminent, foregoes, foregoing, foregone, Great White, The Magnet
«MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, glowworm, magnificent, spectator
«MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.»
«NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.»
«NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
denies, Leader of, Leader of the, nihilist, nihilists, The school
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