REASON, v. i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. - Ambrose Bierce - Quotesmemo.com

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There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

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Ambrose Bierce

REASON, v. i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

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