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Ambrose Bierce Quotes - Page 28

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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

Errors, Neighbor, Embrace

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.67, e-artnow

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Self, Evident

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, Courier Corporation

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Mistake, Punishment, Taste

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Growth, Definitions, Language

hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

Issues, Collaboration, Hybrid

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Self, Independence, Vices

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Food, Cooking, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

The god of the world's leading religion.

Atheism, World, Consumerism

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.221, ReadHowYouWant.com

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

Death, Punishment, Political

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.209, 谷月社

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Political, Black, Politics

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.182, University of Georgia Press

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

Drinking, Medicine, Water

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Wisdom, Disappointment, Light

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Dream, Sleep, Blue

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.186, 谷月社

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Differences, Indifference, Poet

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.189, 谷月社

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Youth, Wounds

Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

Yankees, Europe, Southern

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

Art, Two, Three

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.163, 谷月社

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

Trying, Critics, Please

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.45, University of Georgia Press

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Knights, Feet, Soldier

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Determination, Obstinate, Courses

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2498, Delphi Classics

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Writing, Bird, Feelings

Ambrose Bierce, Brian St. Pierre (1987). “The Devil's advocate: an Ambrose Bierce reader”, Chronicle Books (CA)

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

Disappointment, Stage, Disillusion

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

me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

Ego, Three, Pronouns

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

Horse, Animal, Earthquakes

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

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