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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
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Meigs County
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Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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