Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Kindness
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.
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Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
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HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
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ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
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LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
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