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PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three."Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. --Jali Hane
Ambrose Bierce
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PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
— Ambrose Bierce
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FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. --Hassan Brubuddy
— Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
— Ambrose Bierce
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PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
— Ambrose Bierce
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