Consult: To seek approval for a course of action …– Ambrose Bierce
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,
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