Tag: Ambrose Bierce
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Duty – that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Historian – a broad-gauge gossip.
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Dog – a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.
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