1725 Quotations with Elle.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual d ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can bel ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, F ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: RICHES, n.
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- 135. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in al ...
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