GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
Ambrose BierceMAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
Ambrose BierceINJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
Ambrose BierceLOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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