Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose BierceSpring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose BierceChildhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose BierceSuddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
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