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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

«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.»
«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.»
«REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.»
«RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.»
«MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»