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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.Collection: Ambrose
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.Collection: Ambrose
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.Collection: Ambrose
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.Collection: Ambrose
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.Collection: Ambrose
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.Collection: Ambrose
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.Collection: Ambrose
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.Collection: Ambrose
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.Collection: Ambrose
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.Collection: Ambrose
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.Collection: Ambrose
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.Collection: Ambrose
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.Collection: Ambrose
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.Collection: Ambrose
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.Collection: Ambrose
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.Collection: Ambrose
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.Collection: Ambrose
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.Collection: Ambrose
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.Collection: Ambrose
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.Collection: Ambrose
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.Collection: Ambrose
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.Collection: Ambrose
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.Collection: Ambrose
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.Collection: Ambrose
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.Collection: Ambrose
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.Collection: Ambrose
A man is known by the company he organizes.Collection: Ambrose
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Collection: Ambrose
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.Collection: Ambrose
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.Collection: Ambrose
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.Collection: Ambrose
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.Collection: Ambrose
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.Collection: Ambrose
The covers of this book are too far apart.Collection: Ambrose
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.Collection: Ambrose
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.Collection: Ambrose
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.Collection: Ambrose
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.Collection: Ambrose
Edible, adj.: 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.Collection: Ambrose
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.Collection: Ambrose
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.Collection: Ambrose
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.Collection: Ambrose
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.Collection: Ambrose
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.Collection: Ambrose
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.Collection: Ambrose
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.Collection: Ambrose
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.Collection: Ambrose
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.Collection: Ambrose
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.Collection: Ambrose
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.Collection: Ambrose