MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911). copy citation

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“A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. important.
Material things I know, or feel, or see; All else is immaterial to me.” source

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