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Ambrose Bierce Quotes: Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
         

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.


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