V T Quotes

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• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce
• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. — Ambrose Bierce
• REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon… — Ambrose Bierce
• ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth. — Ambrose Bierce
• ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. — Ambrose Bierce
• EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. — Ambrose Bierce
• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death… — Ambrose Bierce
• TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth. — Ambrose Bierce
• adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly. — Ambrose Bierce
• DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace. — Ambrose Bierce
• ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. — Ambrose Bierce

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• 11 V T Quotes by Ambrose Bierce