TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice."

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Bell	Details	Device	Distant
Enabling	Having	Luckily	Multitude
Needless	Objects	Plague	Relation
Sacrifice	Similar	Summoning	Telephone
Telescope	Unprovided

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