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Letter "A" » Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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«Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Opinions
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obstinately, zealously
«ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assenting, attorney, attorneys, commanded, complicity, fee, hitherto
«Academy: A modern school where football is taught.»
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. --_The Biographical Alphabet_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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biographical, Egyptian, inscriptions, m, meekness, uncommon
«MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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carriage, hypnotism, incredulity, mesmerism, wore
«PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution --they knew no more of the matter than he.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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expounding, Philosophy of, precaution, precautions
«OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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chiefly, collect, inspire, out-of-door, out of doors
«Habit is a shackle for the free.»
«Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.»
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