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1477 Quotations with Full.

1. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already ...
Henry Kissinger

2. Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or ...
Kurt Vonnegut

3. God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enla ...
Mary Howitt

4. When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to t ...
Charles A. Stoddard

5. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to m ...
C. S. Lewis

6. ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and th ...
Ambrose Bierce

7. APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to t ...
Ambrose Bierce

8. CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...
Ambrose Bierce

9. COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
Ambrose Bierce

10. DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
Ambrose Bierce

11. EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of masticatio ...
Ambrose Bierce

12. FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
Ambrose Bierce

13. FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
Ambrose Bierce

14. GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
Ambrose Bierce

15. GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self ...
Ambrose Bierce

16. HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. ...
Ambrose Bierce

17. HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. Th ...
Ambrose Bierce

18. HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to ill ...
Ambrose Bierce

19. INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
Ambrose Bierce

20. INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
Ambrose Bierce


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