Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.Ambrose Bierce
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
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RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
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