5279 Quotations with Great.
- 321. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 322. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 323. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 324. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 325. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 326. Ambrose Bierce: FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
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- 327. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 328. Ambrose Bierce: FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an op ...
- 329. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...
- 330. Ambrose Bierce: FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic co ...
- 331. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 332. Ambrose Bierce: GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied ...
- 333. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...
- 334. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 335. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 336. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 337. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 338. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 339. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 340. Ambrose Bierce: HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of ...
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