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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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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends. – Ambrose Bierce

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