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Away Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
- OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
- RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For…
- WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be…
- FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose…
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
- OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells…
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- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
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- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius