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• WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Marriage is an institution in which two undertake to become one, and one undertakes to become nothing.
• 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....
• CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PUBLISH, n. In literary affairs, to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...