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- 141. Monica Piper: A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows.

- 142. Rose Macauley: You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them m ...

- 143. Lillian Hellman: I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

- 144. Edna Ferber: Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

- 145. Ambrose Bierce: CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abra ...

- 146. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 147. Ambrose Bierce: CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

- 148. Ambrose Bierce: CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indig ...

- 149. Ambrose Bierce: CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and ...

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

- 151. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...

- 152. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...

- 153. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...

- 154. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...

- 155. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...

- 156. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...

- 157. Ambrose Bierce: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods ...

- 158. Ambrose Bierce: EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once ...

- 159. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...

- 160. Ambrose Bierce: EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acq ...

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