Quote by Ambrose Bierce
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital i

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – 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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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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