Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."