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Call Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
- Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
- Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
- RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the…
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