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«Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
curable, disorder, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, insanity, removal, temporary, temporary insanity
«Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coward, emergency, legs, perilous, The Emergency
«PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.»
«CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addicted, adj, assign, assigning, assigns, carnivorous, devouring, heirs, timorous, vegetarian
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
African, Africans, nigger, niggers, votes
«Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Acquaintance
| Keywords:
acquaintance, famous, intimate, obscure, slight
«EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assure, bearer, damnation, evangelist, Evangelists, Good Neighbors, neighbors, of our own, particularly, salvation, such as, The Good Neighbor, tidings
«MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arts, coin, Coined, coining, converting, discreet, magic, serving, superstition
«History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
account, an account, brought, brought about, events, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant
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