TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Zum Autor"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
"ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith."