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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
«INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
incompatibility, moustache, similarity, tastes
«INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disaffection, insurrections, insurrection of, misrule, the insurrection
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
