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«A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.»
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm | About: Sports | Keywords: alderman, Chicago, confessed, jog, jogging, physical exercise
«REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: absolution, alderman, franchise, graded, impenitent, maiden, refusal, Refusals, suitor, suitors, tentative
«ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: alderman, covers, ingenious, marauding, pretence, thieving
«A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | Keywords: alderman, ape
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