Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Nature

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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult

LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

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Nature, Support, Important

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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Daughter, Religious, Nature

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

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Sarcastic, Beach, Nature

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

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

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Nature, Science, Brain

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

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Life, Nature, Horse

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2534, Delphi Classics

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

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Art, Nature, Moles

Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

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Nature, Kings, Hands

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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Nature, Cat, Circles

Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

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Life, Nature, Mind

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2467, Delphi Classics

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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Time, Nature, Punishment

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

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

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Nature, Bird, Heaven

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.203, ReadHowYouWant.com

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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Nature, Science, Admonition

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.183, University of Georgia Press

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

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Nature, Animal, Nurse

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Nature

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