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Affecting Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
- Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
- IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
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