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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.Collection: Ambrose
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.Collection: Ambrose
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.Collection: Ambrose
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.Collection: Ambrose
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.Collection: Ambrose
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.Collection: Ambrose
Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.Collection: Ambrose
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Collection: Ambrose
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.Collection: Ambrose
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.Collection: Ambrose
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.Collection: Ambrose
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.Collection: Ambrose
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.Collection: Ambrose
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.Collection: Ambrose
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.Collection: Ambrose
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.Collection: Ambrose
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.Collection: Ambrose
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.Collection: Ambrose
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.Collection: Ambrose
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.Collection: Ambrose
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.Collection: Ambrose
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.Collection: Ambrose
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.Collection: Ambrose
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.Collection: Ambrose
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.Collection: Ambrose
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.Collection: Ambrose
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.Collection: Ambrose