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repose, v.i. To cease from tro...

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

alone, adj. In bad company....

alone, adj. In bad company.

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The bold and discerning writer...

The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Miss, n. A title with which we...

Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Opportunity: A favorable occas...

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother ...

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

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You cannot adopt politics as a...

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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A single swallow, it is said, ...

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

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An ingenious compound of desir...

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

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Nature's fortuitous manifestat...

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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I keep a conscience uncorrupte...

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

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A statesman who shakes the fru...

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

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A nutritious substance supplie...

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

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Responsibility, n. A detachabl...

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

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A leech who, having penetrated...

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

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A person of greater enterprise...

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

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Rome has seven sacraments, but...

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

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Quill: An instrument of tortur...

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

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Disobey n:To celebrate with an...

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

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