Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Ambrose BierceConvent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose BierceRevelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
Ambrose BiercePertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
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