Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
Ambrose BierceInsurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose BierceThe slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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