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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.
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