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作者：Ambrose Bierce [全部名言]

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“REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.”

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“REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.”

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“REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.”

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“REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.”

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“REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.”

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“REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.”

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“RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave.”

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“RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.”

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“RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank account.”

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“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.”

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“RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest.”

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“RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist.”

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“RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.”

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“REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.”

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“REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.”

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“RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.”

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“RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.”

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“RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'”

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“RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.”

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“RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.”

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