Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
Acquaintance: "A person whom ...
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
