Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 20

• mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

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  Ifs, I Can, Mines

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

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  Party, Grandmother, Office

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.149, 谷月社

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• Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Opportunity, Grasping

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.34, See Sharp Press

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• repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

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  Repose, Cease

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

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• CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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  Wish, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

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  Haste

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.94, 谷月社

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• GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

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  Christian, Failure, Fusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

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  Evil, Bereavement, Shows

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

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  Learning, Ignorance, Race

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• UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

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  Divinity, Deny, Unitarian

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

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  Inspiration, Fire, Divinity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, University of Georgia Press

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• PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

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  Confused, Differences, Confusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

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  Alive, Advantage, Sensible

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.98, University of Georgia Press

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• An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

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  Wine, Lips, Connoisseur

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.40, University of Georgia Press

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• OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

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  Lexicographer, Fool, Loathing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

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  Army, Escorting

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

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  Opportunity, Attachment, Enterprise

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

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• Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

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  Ducks, Bills, Canvas

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.48, 谷月社

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• PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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  Art, Character, Differences

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

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  Consistency, Habit, Predicaments

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

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  Leadership, Followers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

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  Humanity, Quality, Characteristics

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

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• REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

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  House, Next, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.182, 谷月社

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• LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

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  Revenge, Mature, Injury

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.707, Library of America

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

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  Nature, Insomnia, Novelists

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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