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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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misrule, proponent, proponents, rebel
«ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home. --Borey the Bald»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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All Roads, diverge, diverged, strip, tiresome
«RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century --commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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censorious, coadjutor, fastidious, fifteenth century
«RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.»
«RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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bequest, bequests, endowing, founding, Libraries, public libraries, public library, the founding, universities
«RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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philanthropist, philanthropists, The Philanthropist
«RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.»
«REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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commentator, concealed, Divine revelation, John the Divine, St. John, St John
«REVIEW, v.t.To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it.»
«RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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divining, divining rod, metals, precious metal, precious metals, prospecting
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