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- 181. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...

- 182. Ambrose Bierce: RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

- 183. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...

- 184. Ambrose Bierce: REVIEW, v.t.
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- 185. Ambrose Bierce: SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall o ...

- 186. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...

- 187. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...

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

- 189. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...

- 190. Ambrose Bierce: UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a hous ...

- 191. Ambrose Bierce: WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition ...

- 192. Ambrose Bierce: WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing h ...

- 193. Ambrose Bierce: WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among per ...

- 194. Ambrose Bierce: WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty b ...

- 195. Oscar Levant: I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

- 196. Evelyn Waugh: What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

- 197. Logan Pearsall Smith: People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- 198. Lazarus Long: The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be d ...

- 199. Alan King: If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.

- 200. Dwight David Eisenhower: Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the ...

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