9 Quotes by Ambrose Bierce about definitions
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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art, n. This word has no definition.
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Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
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HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
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