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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.»
«HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.»
«HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage.»
«HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
entertains, hostility, overpopulation, passive, peculiarly, respectively
«IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.»
«PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cone, cones, literary critic, publish
«PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.»
«QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.»
«RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.»
«REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.»
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