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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do me?
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