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PUBLISHED: May 15, 2005 at 1:00 AM CDT | UPDATED: August 22, 2021 at 9:14 PM CDT

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The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

–From “The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce

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