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• Oats: a grain which is commonly given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
  -- Johnson, Definition Dictionary...
• Bow to no patron's insolence. Rely on no frail hopes; in freedom live and die. -- Seneca
• Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron -- namely, that he is a blockhead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron -- namely, that he is a blockhead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• It is not well to be thought of as one who meekly submits to insolence and intimidation.
• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward.
  -- John Tobin (1770-1804) -- The Honeymoon, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...