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Subject Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- 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…
- RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
- MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated…
- LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
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