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Office Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- 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…
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- 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…
- Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
- ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office…
- NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
- 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.
- CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and…
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