Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose BierceA total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose BierceOLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.
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