Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Ambrose BierceARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
Ambrose BierceLove, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Ambrose BierceOBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
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