 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
Reading, n.
[_]
The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in “dialect” and humor in slang.
[We know by one's reading]
We know by one's readingHis learning and breeding;
By what draws his laughter
We know his Hereafter.
Read nothing, laugh never—
The Sphinx was less clever!
Jupiter Muke.
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