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«BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. --Richard Gwow»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.»
«GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.»
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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abandoned, atmospheric, captains, construction, cyclone, decked, decks, demonstration, demonstrations, fashioned, hurricane, hurricanes, Indies, old fashioned, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, preferred, sea captain, steamboat, steamboats, The Hurricane, the Indies, the West, tornado, tornadoes, upper, uppers, upper deck, usefulness, West Indies
«Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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cheating, International, international affairs, periods
«Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution
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abrupt, misgovernment
«A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.»
«Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.»
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