Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mi…

Ambrose Bierce
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.' ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.128, University of Georgia Press
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