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• CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by _him_ to C.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Labor, n: One of the processes whereby A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce
• Labor, n.: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• N-C-C-One-Seven-Oh-One. No bloody A, B, C, or D. Scotty
• BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
  Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....
• GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another.
  This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A....