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«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abasement, addressing, appropriate, customary, decent, employee, employer, peculiarly
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Myths
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accounts, and so forth, Body of, concerning, deities, distinguished, heroes, invents, mythologies, mythology, origin, primitive
«EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. --Joel Frad Bink»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acquaintance, bog, bogged, bogs, embraced, fog, Joel, journeying, mired, most undesirable, The Rising, undesirable, unwholesome
«Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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abstainer, abstainers, denying, temptation, yields
«LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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disposition, forbearance, injury, maturing, meek, meekest, revenge
«KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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costume, Scotchman, Scotchmen, Scotland
«CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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circus, circuses, elephants, Elephant Man, horses, permitted, ponies, pony, The Circus, The Elephant Man, The Fool
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Inventions,
Technology
| Keywords:
abrogate, abrogates, advantages, disagreeable, disagreeable person, telephone
«IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.»
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