Quotations in Manifest N5

6, October 2008

Indifferent, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Dejeuner, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris, variously pronounced.

both from Ambrose Bierce in “The Devil’s Dictionary”.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both.
They are to say what they please and I am to do what I please.
Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786