Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 17

• TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

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  Food, Passion, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

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  Strong, Food, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

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  Hands, Action, Propensity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

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  Opportunity, Temptation, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.15, 谷月社

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• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

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  Time, Mind, Belief

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

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  Friendship, Fool, Method

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.61, 谷月社

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• To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

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  Future, Apology, Foundation

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

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  Beauty, Kindness, Preparation

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2361, Delphi Classics

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• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

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  Errors, Brain, Opponents

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• FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

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  Sex, Science, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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  Doubt, Denial, May

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• INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

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  Believe, Fall, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

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  Honor, Rivals

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.190, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

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  Art, Finance, Advantage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.81, University of Georgia Press

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• RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

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  Maids, Ruins, Belief

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

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  Wisdom, Experience, Recognise You

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• Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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  Funny, Sloth, Degrees

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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  Hope, Expectations, Hopeful

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

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  Science, Function, Humour

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Religion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.18, 谷月社

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• WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

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  Life, Women, Animal

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.239, University of Georgia Press

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• Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

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  Military, Silence, Form

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians”, p.11, Ambrose Bierce

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• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

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  Truth, Sea, Departed

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

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  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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