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Yield Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
- APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an…
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