DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace. -Ambrose Bierce

 

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.


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