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«REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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re-formation, reformation, satisfies, The Reformation
«REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge --Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron --to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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admirable, akin, appropriately, assuring, Dead Man, expedient, Golan, Greece, honored, hunted, inadvertently, Kadesh, peril, Ramoth, The Chase, The Dead Man
«RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.»
«REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.This is a truth, as old as the hills, That life and experience teach: The poor man suffers that keenest of ills, An impediment of his reach. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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impediment, impediments, keenest, radius
«RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.»
«RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, rattlesnake
«REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.»
«RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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mineral, minerals, organ, radium, stimulates, The Organ
«REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.»
«REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.»
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