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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.»
«Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anoint, functionaries, functionary, slippery
«Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.»
«Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, Bacchus, convenient, deity
«Example is better than following it.»
«Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to»
«For study of the good and bad in woman two women are a-needless expense»
«The wife, or bitter half»
«What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it»
«Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.»
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