Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Ambrose BiercePLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
Ambrose BierceInternational arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
Ambrose BierceImmoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
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