1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 321. EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
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- 322. EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislativ ...
- 323. EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a ...
- 324. EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
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- 325. EXISTENCE, n.
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- 326. Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- 327. EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly ...
- 328. Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly tha ...
- 329. EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
- 330. EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
- 331. FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and fores ...
- 332. Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things ...
- 333. Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things withou ...
- 334. Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things withou ...
- 335. FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
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- 336. FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 337. FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, freque ...
- 338. FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed ...
- 339. FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 340. FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee ...
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