1586 Quotations with Dent.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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- 82. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of f ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is lar ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail ya ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result ...
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