451 Quotations with Dust.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 22. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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- 25. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 26. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is lar ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being C ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The conte ...
- 37. T. E. Lawrence: All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses o ...
- 38. Howard Zinn: Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritan ...
- 39. Stephen Wolfe: It's scary to think that the infrastructure of the industrialized world is incre ...
- 40. J.B.S. Haldane: To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ...
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