International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language --a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
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ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians --may their souls be happy in Heaven
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MONDAY, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
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EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.He was a slave at word he went and came His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.
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ALLEGIANCE, n.This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. --G.J.
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