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Afflicted Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
- Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman…
- HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That…
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- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil
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- And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton