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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
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