Ambrose bierce and hemp
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LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." -- Calcraft the Hangman.
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HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.
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A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.
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Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Praying is to ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
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The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
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A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
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Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse.
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And abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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The plague today...is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
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Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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