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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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