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Part Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
- Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
- That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
- Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
- Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
- PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of…
- Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
- OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
- 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,…
- Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough…
- The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly…
- DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
- PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of…
- REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
- TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
- 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…
- RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
- The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
- WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be…
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan.…
- FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
- TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
- Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still…
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