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«SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accessible, chicks, fatally, gnome, gnomes, immaterial, inhabited, insalubrious, nymph, nymphs, polluted, progeny, respectively, salamander, Salamanders, sewers, sewer gas, sylph, Sylphs
«HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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entertains, hostility, overpopulation, passive, peculiarly, respectively
«We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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arbitrary, a priori, formerly, foundations, respectively
«I think you will practically recognise the two types of mental make-up that I mean if I head the columns by the titles `tender-minded' and `tough-minded' respectively.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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columns, practically, recognise, respectively, titles
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