That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in …

Ambrose Bierce
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.22, University of Georgia Press
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