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Ambrose Bierce

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O proud philanthropist, your hope is vain
To get by giving what you lost by gain.
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p. 349. Previously appeared in "Small Contributions", Cosmopolitan, Vol. 42, No. 6 (April 1907) p. 695.

 
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