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Too Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
- MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
- ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole…
- A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long…
- If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
- Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to…
- Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe…
- Twice – Once too often.
- 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.…
- MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment.…
- TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in…
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