Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
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page 123 of 251 (49%)
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PH.--Of none that I have seen. * * * * * FOOL.--Let us return to our subject--the sole aim of mankind. Crack me these nuts. (1) The man, never weary of well-doing, who endures a life of privation for the good of his fellow-creatures? PHILOSOPHER.--Does he feel remorse in so doing? or does the rascal rather like it? F.--(2) He, then, who, famishing himself, parts his loaf with a beggar? PH.--There are people who prefer benevolence to bread. F.--Ah! _De gustibus_-- PH.--Shut up! F.--Well, (3) how of him who goes joyfully to martyrdom? PH.--He goes joyfully. F.--And yet-- PH.--Did you ever converse with a good man going to the stake? F.--I never saw a good man going to the stake. |
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