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Derived Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study…
- BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
- LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or…
- BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
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