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Form Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of…
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
- A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form…
- BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man…
- Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the…
- PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
- Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
- POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
- Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
- MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
- pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility…
- REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that…
- A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a…
- Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
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