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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
allopathy, Christian Science, distinctly, homoeopathy, Midway, school of medicine
«HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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eagle, griffin, half eagle, surprises, zoology
«HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.Of Roman history, great Niebuhr's shown'Tis nine-tenths lying. Faith, I wish 'twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide, Wherein he blundered and how much he lied. --Salder Bupp»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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blundered, knaves, lied, Niebuhr, Roman history
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appal, appropriation, appropriations, bacilli, bacillus, cockroach, Cockroaches, detention, disagreeable, disagreeable person, domestic, edifices, erected, flea, habitation, Hardy, hollow, house of detention, ingeniously, microbe, microbes, mortgage, mosquito, Mosquitoes, offenders, pestilent, service station, steeple, steeples, The Station, unclean, variously
«HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.»
«HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Keywords:
bungler, bunglers, dispatch, dispatched
«HYBRID, n. A pooled issue.»
«HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.»
«Washingtonian, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice, to him it should be said that he did not want to.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
exchanged, governing, Potomac, tribesman, Washingtonian
«HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cheery, comely, deficient, denies, discontent, earthly, houri, inhabiting, Mohammedan, Mohammedans, spouse
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