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The people's plaudits are unheard in hell.
The people's plaudits are unheard in hell.
Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Ambrose Bierce
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- Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
recorded author birth year1842; not quotation composition date; death year uncertain
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- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume08 (1911), Epigrams (1911 AD)
Epigrams section, complete prose paragraph 100; original publication1911
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