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Consolation

by Ambrose Bierce

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Little’s the good to sit and grieve Because the serpent tempted Eve. Better to wipe your eyes and take A club and go out and kill a snake.
But if you prefer, as I suspect, To philosophize, why, then, reflect: If the cunning rascal upon the limb Hadn’t tempted her she’d have tempted him.

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