1064 Quotations with Might.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celeb ...

- 62. Ambrose Bierce: DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver.
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- 63. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...

- 64. Ambrose Bierce: ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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- 65. Ambrose Bierce: FORCE, n.
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- 66. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 67. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...

- 68. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...

- 69. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
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- 70. Ambrose Bierce: LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity ...

- 71. Ambrose Bierce: MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might ...

- 72. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. Bu ...

- 73. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 74. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...

- 75. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...

- 76. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.
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- 77. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...

- 78. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...

- 79. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...

- 80. Richard Bach: It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might s ...

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