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Ambrose Bierce：经典英语语录与格言 - 芙联英语 第5页

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“ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights -- _cunctationes illuminati_.”
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“ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.”
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“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
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“IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.”
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“IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.”
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“IMMORTALITY, n. A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. G.J.”
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“IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.”
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“IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.”
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“IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.”
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“IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.”
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“IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.”
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“IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.”
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“INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.”
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“INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.”
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“INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.”
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“INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_.”
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“INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.”
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“INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.”
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“INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
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“INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.”
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