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«ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appliance, appliances, assassins, electrical, electrical device, in place, obsolescent, preachment, preachments, rapidly, supersede, superseded, supersedes
«We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
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artillery, condense, condensed, curt, degenerate, designate, designated, designates, detailed, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, discussion, ephemeral, gunnery, inaccessible, in place, legitimate, lightness, newspaper, on the other hand, pointed, pop, portion, readily, sole, the discussion, verbose, voluminous
«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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came, commit, cost, costing, created, creditable, effected, effecting, effects, folly, grotesque, grotesques, human race, in place, lark, larks, least, must have, observe, race, regret, reputation, The Larks, to that effect