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«OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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advocacy, exponent, exponents, mule, splendor, The Mule, The Popular
«R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than _reductus in pulvis_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbreviation, attesting, attests, careless, dead letter, Dr., Dr
«RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ceremony, essential oil, precept, religious ceremony, rite, semi, squeezed
«RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Garden of, rectilinear, ritualism, the Dutch
«ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appliance, appliances, assassins, electrical, electrical device, in place, obsolescent, preachment, preachments, rapidly, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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beak, beaks, candidate, energetically, expounds, Latin, Latin America, prow, rabble, rostrum
«RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Arts and, Arts and Sciences, due south, infest, infested, infesting, regions, rubbish
«RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.»
«RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth --a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?»
«OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy.»
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