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MAGIC, n. An art of converting...

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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Book - Learning : The dunce's ...

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of...

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

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DIGESTION, n. The conversion o...

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

LANGUAGE, n. The music with wh...

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

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San Francisco is the place whe...

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Good-bye -- if you hear of my ...

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

God alone knows the future, bu...

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

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I was born to poor because of ...

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

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Lottery: A tax on people who a...

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Laughter--an interior convulsi...

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

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The natural equipment to accom...

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

Uncommon extension of the fear...

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

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Take not God's name in vain; s...

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

A subsidiary Deity designed to...

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Ambrose Bierce 1281 quotes

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable fram...

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

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Justice is a commodity which i...

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

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The circus a place where horse...

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

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DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pa...

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed.

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DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver li...

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....