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Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
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