ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Ambrose BiercePray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose BierceHistory is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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