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Public Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the…
- Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
- Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle…
- Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
- REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
- 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…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
- Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals,…
- REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
- As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
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