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Our severest retorts are unanswerable because nobody is present to answer them.
Our severest retorts are unanswerable because nobody is present to answer them.
Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Ambrose Bierce
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- Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
recorded author birth year1842; not quotation composition date; death year uncertain
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- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume08 (1911), Epigrams (1911 AD)
Epigrams section, complete prose paragraph 227; original publication1911
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Author of the satirical prose epigrams in volume08 of his Collected Works, originally published1911. The Gutenberg catalogue records1842–1914?; the uncertain death year is left unspecified. These historical epigrams include irony and dated viewpoints.
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