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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already su

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

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Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce

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Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. – Ambrose Bierce

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemys aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. – Winston Churchill

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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. – P. J. ORourke

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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