Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
From Ambrose Bierce
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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