To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.Ambrose Bierce
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment .... judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
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REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
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LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture.
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