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Border: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. (The Devil
by magoghm 15y ago
Border: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. (The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911)
- ktizo 15y agoI love Ambrose Bierce :) PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors. PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.