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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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disadvantage, edifices, eel, Eels, organized society, reared, superstructure, superstructures, The Statesman, trembling, wriggle, wriggles, wriggling
«POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
expiatory, monogamy, polygamy, stools
«PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, plebiscite, popular vote, sovereign
«PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
diplomatist, exert, minister plenipotentiary, plenipotentiary, possessing
«PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction --prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blameless, inflicting, pillory, prototype, prototypes
«PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
imposition, impositions, superstructure, superstructures
«QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another --usually about as many times as it can be got there.»
«RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
argumentative, implement, rack, racked, racking, racks, the rack, unconverted