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Two Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
- Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
- Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood…
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
- BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
- Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The…
- DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .…
- CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of…
- DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper…
- EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the…
- A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
- INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,…
- Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
- INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the…
- REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a…
- 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…
- LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate…
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