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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.»
«An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, ingenious, levers, wheels
«The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fortuitous, manifestation, objectionableness, plague, purposeless, the plague
«Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.»
«Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Coming out, desolating, elastic, elastic band, garter, garters, stockings
«Magpie, n.: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.»
«Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.»
«Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.»
«AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.»
«Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Youth
| Keywords:
of age, renounce, revelation
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