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Letter "S" » Saxon
«Lacking ladylike poison, Lizzie (Borden) did what every over-civilized, understated Wasp is entirely capable of doing once we finally admit we're mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more: She went from Anglo to Saxon in a trice»
«The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin»
«Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.»
«MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon --that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Keywords:
barbarous,
destitute,
destitute of,
elementary,
monosyllabic,
Saxon,
testifying,
that is to say,
vapid
«When we talk about ourselves we almost invariably use Latin words, and when we talk about our neighbors we use Saxon words»