83 Quotations with Instance.
- 1. Solomon Short: Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a clic ...

- 2. Thomas Jefferson: No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will alwa ...

- 3. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...

- 4. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition ...

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...

- 10. Ambrose Bierce: TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirel ...

- 11. Henri De Regnier: It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not e ...

- 12. Ayn Rand: The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social syst ...

- 13. David Hume: If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instan ...

- 14. Robert W. Shaunon: Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact ...

- 15. Sir Winston Churchill: But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all ...

- 16. Clifford Truesdell: How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction e ...

- 17. Douglas R. Hofstadter: Tortoise: But we must be careful in combining sentences. For instance, you'd gra ...

- 18. Adrienne E. Gusoff: Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Po ...

- 19. James Madison: I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the peop ...

- 20. Sylvia Ashton-Warner: No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this jo ...

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