« Loss. Deprivation of what we have, or do not have. It is in this second sense said to a beaten candidate that he has "lost the elections". »
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Ambrose Bierce
Le dictionnaire du Diable |
Ambrose Bierce
Le dictionnaire du Diable
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« Grammar. System of traps deliberately prepared for tripping the self-taught journey on which he moves the distinction. »
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Ambrose Bierce
Le Dictionnaire du Diable |
Ambrose Bierce
Le Dictionnaire du Diable
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« Compromise. Kind of adjustment of interests which is to give each opponent the satisfaction of thinking that was what he couldn't get, and he is deprived of nothing, if not what was actually owed. »
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Ambrose Bierce
Le dictionnaire du Diable |
Ambrose Bierce
Le dictionnaire du Diable
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