GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These quills when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an 'author,' there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. (Ambrose Bierce)

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These quills when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an 'author,' there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Ambrose Bierce

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