Adjective Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce
• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
• Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. — Ambrose Bierce
• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake… — Ambrose Bierce
• Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. — Ambrose Bierce
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• Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
• Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant
• Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse
• If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of… — Stephen King
• Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert

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