Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

Clearly the intention must have been to kill.

Part of the intention of the spin-off is to allow Western Union to focus on the consumer rather than the businesses that First Data focuses on, and it would also give First Data greater access to capital.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Funny peculiar, or funny ha-ha?

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.