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• ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous....
• Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• When the well is dry, we know the worth of oil. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac
• QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.
  A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....
• We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
  -- Mimnermus (Tragedian) -- Frag. 1...