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收录Ambrose Bierce的全部英语名言 第9页
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Ambrose Bierce
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“MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.”
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“MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.”
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“MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both.”
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“MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.”
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“MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't lead.”
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“NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.”
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“NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.”
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“NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.”
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“NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.”
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“NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.”
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“NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.”
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“NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.”
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“NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.”
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“NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.”
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“NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.”
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“OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.”
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“OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.”
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“OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.”
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“OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.”
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“ONCE, adv. Enough.”
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