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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

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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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