Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ambrose Bierce

SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues.

    John Elmer Pettibone Cajee
    (I write of him with little glee)
    Was just as bad as he could be.
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он и стихи писал, оказывается. Bierce и Veblen встречаются вместе на странице American Realism

see also

UNDERSTANDING, n. A Cerebral Secretion That Enables One Having It To Know A House From A Horse By The Roof On The House.


ну и очевидное:

VOTE, n: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
и о женщинах: When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

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