1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 281. EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, cal ...
- 282. Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.
- 283. Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
- 284. EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 285. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- 286. Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- 287. EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extre ...
- 288. ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
- 289. ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else ...
- 290. ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the write ...
- 291. ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It i ...
- 292. ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by ...
- 293. EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
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- 294. EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dea ...
- 295. EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometime ...
- 296. ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
- 297. END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.
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- 298. ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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- 299. ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
- 300. ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward ...
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