<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A False Prophecy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dom Pedro, Emperor of far Brazil<br>(Whence coffee comes and the three-cornered nut),<br>They say that you're imperially ill,<br>And threatened with paralysis. Tut-tut!<br>Though Emperors are mortal, nothing but<br>A nimble thunderbolt could catch and kill<br>A man predestined to depart this life<br>By the assassin's bullet, bomb or knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir, once there was a President who freed<br>Ten million slaves; and once there was a Czar<br>Who freed five times as many serfs. Sins breed<br>The means of punishment, and tyrants are<br>Hurled headlong out of the triumphal car<br>If faster than the law allows they speed.<br>Lincoln and Alexander struck a rut;<br>_You_ freed slaves too. Paralysis-tut-tut!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342636" data-title="A False Prophecy de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Dom Pedro, Emperor of far Brazil (Whence coffee comes and the three-cornered nut), They say that you're imperially ill, And threatened with paralysis. Tut-tut! Though Emperors are mortal, nothing but A nimble thunderbolt could catch and kill A man..."></div> </div> </div>

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