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FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
— Ambrose Bierce
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RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.Alas, things ain't what we should see If Eve had let that apple be; And many a feller which had ought To set with monarchses of thought, Or play some rosy little game With battle-chaps on fields of fame, Is downed by his unlucky star And hollers: "Peanuts! --here you are!" --"The Sturdy Beggar"
— Ambrose Bierce
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Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.
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