A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
Ambrose BierceAFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
Ambrose BierceAmnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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