RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
RESPITE, n. A suspension of ...
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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.
