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The fiend's delight

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)
  
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PREFACE.

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SOME FICTION.
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TALL TALK.
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CURRENT JOURNALINGS.
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OBITUARY NOTICES.
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MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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VI.
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VII.
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VIII.
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X.
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XI.
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XII.
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XIII.
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XIV.
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XV.
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XVI.
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XVII.
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XVIII.
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XIX.
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XX.
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XXI.
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XXII.
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XXIII.
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XXIV.
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XXV.
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XXVII.
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XXVIII.
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XXX.
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XXXI.
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XXXII.
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XXXIII.
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XXXIV.
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LAUGHORISMS.
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“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.
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POESY.

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24. XXIV.

It is better not to take a wife than to take one
belonging to some other man: for if she has been
a good wife to him she has adapted her nature to
his, and will therefore be unsuited to yours. If
she has not been a good wife to him she will not
be to you.

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