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Take Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance…
- Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
- PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
- TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
- WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked…
- PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B…
- 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.…
- If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens.
- OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive…
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