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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
divination, dunce, dunces, nosing, occult
«DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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combines, dash, dragoon, foot soldier, foot soldiers, horseback, retreats, steadiness
«DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. --Israfel Brown»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
celebrate, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, observance, undone
«DISSEMBLE, v.i. To put a clean shirt upon the character.Let us dissemble. --Adam»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, shirt
«DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
discriminate, objectionable, Particulars
«DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.»
«DUCK-BILL, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.»
«DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. --G.J.»
«ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accentuate, Eccentricities, eccentricity, incapacity
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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