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PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Ambrose Bierce
Wall, Punishment, Stones
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.188, University of Georgia Press

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Ambrose Bierce
Wall, Fall, Thinking
Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

Ambrose Bierce
Success, Wall, Heaven
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.

Ambrose Bierce
Wall, Army, Wind
Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.104, Sheba Blake Publishing

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