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INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

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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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