Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
AMBROSE BIERCECorporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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