Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman.Ambrose Bierce
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
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WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned.
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