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«RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Afro-American, Afro, Caucasian, Caucasians, Mongolian, razor
«RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
filter, filtered, filtering, filters, fitted, inhabitant, passage, respirator, The Nose, whereby
«REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
popular opinion, popular vote, referendum, submission
«RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bystander, bystanders, Popular entertainment, riot
«MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addicted, afflicted, mugwump, The Vice
«WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.»
«SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
infallible, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, renounced, sauce, sauces
«FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs.»
«OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
howls, motions, postures, simulation, simulations
«OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
entrails, hardihood, shellfish, shells, slimier, slimy
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