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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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aims, composition, cur, curs, dejection, elegy, employing, fiddle-faddle, fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, foretell, foretells, foretold, herd, homeward, knell, knells, lea, like this, loafing, minor, parting, plod, plodding, plods, somewhat, The Lea, verse, without aim, without humor
«PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbey, amiable, archbishop, Archbishop of, archbishop of Canterbury, Canterbury, Church of England, involuntary, primate, Primates, Westminster, Westminster Abbey
«OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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conspicuous, defect, ingeniously, naturalist, naturalists, ostrich, pious, The Ostrich, toe-in, toe
«ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.»
«BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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clarified, clarifies, cordial, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, headful, remorse, venture
«Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
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application, Arts and, Arts and Industries, destined, economical, electricity, industries, propel, propelled, propelling, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling
«PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, disabilities, disability, Frost, Philosophy of, Platonic love
«NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appointing, grandmother, nepotism, The Party
«RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accounting, adj, advocacy, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, candid, denizen, denizens, envious, incompetent, indolent, logical, luckless, prevails, The Brotherhood, the underworld, The View, underworld
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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addressed, assurance, brazil, brimstone, come in handy, DOM, Dom Pedro, emperor, empires, exile, fire and brimstone, firing line, handier, Handy, hint, hints, jape, Long line, Pedro, procured, retribution, retributions, Reverend, riot, shelter, showed, subjects, talk show, throat, ungrateful
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