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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.»
«HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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burial, frequenting, hyena, The Oriental
«IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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aspirant, honors, impostor, impostors, rival
«Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.»
«Early one June morning in 1872 I murdered my father - an act which made a deep impression on me at the time»
«HEAT, n.Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild._Crede expertum_ --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope»
«HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.»
«EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.»
«FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.»
«FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.»
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