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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.»
«INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
incompatibility, moustache, similarity, tastes
«IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.»
«IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.»
«INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_.»
«INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disaffection, insurrections, insurrection of, misrule, the insurrection
«INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.»
«INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.»
«INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.»
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
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