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#3688Acquaintance, 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 the
object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#3689ADA:
Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in
Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop
an ADA awareness.
-- "Datamation", January 15, 1984
#3690Adler's Distinction:
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals,
and from the bureaucrats.
#3691Admiration, n.:
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#3692Adore, v.:
To venerate expectantly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
#3693Adult, n.:
One old enough to know better.
#3694Advertising Rule:
In writing a patent-medicine advertisement, first convince the
reader that he has the disease he is reading about; secondly,
that it is curable.
#3695Afternoon, n.:
That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
#3696Age, n.:
That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we
still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise
to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce
#3697Agnes' Law:
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
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