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Another Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
- Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
- Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great…
- Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be…
- Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
- PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
- AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
- OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
- RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
- Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has…
- DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
- EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
- INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or…
- DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
- UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
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