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Play Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
- PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
- A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for…
- ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an…
- Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do…
- DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.…
- 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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