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«PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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dignitaries, dignitary, founder, High Church, residence, residences
«ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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archbishop, Archbishop of, dignitaries, dignitary, ecclesiastical, flounder, floundering, flounders, Fridays, holier, jolly, REM, salmon, smelted, smelts, the fish
«It is a good lesson /though it may often be a hard one /for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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achieves, aims, devoid, dignitaries, dignitary, significance
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