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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
I think I think, therefore, I think I am.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Impiety, noun. Your irreverence toward my deity.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
network: anything reticulated or decussated, with interstices between the intersections: from the Dictionary of Samuel Johnson

Results from Poor Man's College:

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.: Napoleon
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.: Noah Webster

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