RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose BierceThe place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.
Ambrose BierceExperience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose BierceREVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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