Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ✨ The Devil's D…

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ✨ The Devil's Dictionary. Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. ✨ The Devil's Dictionary. Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1911.

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