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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. - Ambros

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce

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