Ambrose Bierce

I, pro. In...

I, pro. In...

I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be We, but how there...

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IDLENESS, n. A...

IDLENESS, n. A...

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple...

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IMBECILITY, n. A...

IMBECILITY, n. A...

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this...

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IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient....

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient....

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be...

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably...

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably...

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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IDIOT, n. A...

IDIOT, n. A...

IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and...

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ILLUMINATI, n. A...

ILLUMINATI, n. A...

ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were...

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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision...

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

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IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable...

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable...

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or...

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IMMODEST, adj. Having...

IMMODEST, adj. Having...

IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in...

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IGNORAMUS, n. A...

IGNORAMUS, n. A...

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other...

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IMAGINATION, n. A...

IMAGINATION, n. A...

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In...

INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In...

INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable . . .

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IN'ARDS, n. The...

IN'ARDS, n. The...

IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels.

Source: The Devil's...

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IMPALE, v.t. In...

IMPALE, v.t. In...

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to...

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IMMIGRANT, n. An...

IMMIGRANT, n. An...

IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

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IMPENITENCE, n. A...

IMPENITENCE, n. A...

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

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INDECISION, n. The...

INDECISION, n. The...

INDECISION, n. The chief element of success . . . for he who from indecision standeth still hath not so many chances...

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INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In...

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In...

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may,...

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IMPOSITION, n. The...

IMPOSITION, n. The...

IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands -- a ceremony common to many...

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