REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
Ambrose BierceAn ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
Ambrose BierceAPOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
Ambrose BierceOcean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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