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Large Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
- Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
- Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
- TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of…
- LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it…
- OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a…
- LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to…
- Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is…
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- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
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- There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard