How To Use Bierce In A Sentence
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Retell “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce using a local train trestle and creek as the setting.
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Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
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Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. Ambrose Bierce
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One can do no better than to paraphrase Ambrose Bierce upon his discovery of the merkin, and ask: how can such things be?
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Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
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Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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They are of course the life-blood of satirical books, of the kind made famous by Andrew Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, such as apologise 'to lay the foundation for future offence'.
On antinyms
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
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Lawyer - One skilled in the circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce
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Lawyer - One skilled in the circumvention of the law. Ambrose Bierce
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Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Ambrose Bierce
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
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Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
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‘The oppressed,’ snarled Bierce, ‘are dirty, vicious, and irreclaimably ignorant.’
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Mrs Bierce wears thick bifocal lenses.
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Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
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And some time, when we get together in San Francisco, I'll lead you up against Bierce -- the one this cove is named after.
CHAPTER VII
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a Worm. Ambrose Bierce
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Jan Freeman, author since 1997 of a word column for the Boston Sunday Globe, produced an excellent annotated version of Bierce's book in 2009.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
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Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
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Bierce is always amusing, and the idle moment spent picking through his definitions is never wasted.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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Mrs Bierce wears thick bifocal lenses.
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Re Lent, Bierce put it best: the abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
"I blog for the hell of it, to express myself, and to figure out the world as I go along, the best I can."
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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For Bierce , Christianity was an antiquated superstition with no place in the modern world.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
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Like Aesop before him, Ambrose Bierce included animals in his fables in order to demonstrate human failings and quirks of character.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
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Bierce also fought at Chickamauga, which lends its name to the title of his powerful story of a lost little boy playing with a wooden sword who wanders into a forest and comes upon "freaked and maculated" men crawling and falling in battle.
Lacerating Wit, Seasoned Cynic
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Politeness, The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a Worm. Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
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Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce
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Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Ambrose Bierce
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‘Software development is easy - you don't have data protection problems until you start populating a database,’ Bierce says.
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This adapted version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains words like brute, gallows, damn, wrath, and X.
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Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
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Green then went into the kitchen and, when he returned, said he had opened the propane tank and they needed to get out of the house because it was about to explode, Bierce said.
