Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Ambrose BierceCoronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
Ambrose BiercePRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.
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