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Piety

by by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.




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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers

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