While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
Ambrose BierceAn auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose BiercePYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Ambrose BierceAUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
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