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We Know Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when…
- We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
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