19256 Quotations with Thin.
- 1261. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...

- 1262. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...

- 1263. Ambrose Bierce: COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversa ...

- 1264. Ambrose Bierce: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing ab ...

- 1265. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...

- 1266. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...

- 1267. Ambrose Bierce: DEAD, adj.
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- 1268. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...

- 1269. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...

- 1270. Ambrose Bierce: DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if p ...

- 1271. Ambrose Bierce: DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call their ...

- 1272. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...

- 1273. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...

- 1274. Ambrose Bierce: EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 1275. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...

- 1276. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...

- 1277. Ambrose Bierce: EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its ...

- 1278. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...

- 1279. Ambrose Bierce: EXISTENCE, n.
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- 1280. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...

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