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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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church officer, holiness, preferment, prelate, prelates
«PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
presbyter, Presbyterian, Presbyterians, presbyters
«PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disillusion, predilection, predilections, preparatory
«PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. --Orpheus Bowen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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antedate, antedated, antedating, art museums, belonging, Bowen, celestial, Clio, droll, fortuitous, Orpheus, perpetuating, phantasmagoric, prehistoric, recorded, set down, succession, threw
«PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, forsake, guardian, improperly, mutable, ownership, portable, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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edible, imperfectly, indigenous, Portugal, Portuguese, stuffed
«POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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affirms, broadest, Comte, denies, exponent, exponents, mill, positivism, Spencer, thickest
«POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
card game, Game of cards, poker game
«POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Armed force, armed forces, police force