FRAUD, n. The life of commerce, the soul of religion, the bait of courtship, and the basis of political power.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Fraud,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-01-10)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing.