Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
Ambrose BierceEloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose BierceRIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .
Ambrose BierceIf you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
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