Daily Almanac for
May 13, 2008
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Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce

87 - The Prerogative of Might
Rejected Services - 89

An Inflated Ambition

THE President of a great Corporation went into a dry-goods shop and saw a placard which read:

"If You Don't See What You Want, Ask For It."

Approaching the shopkeeper, who had been narrowly observing him as he read the placard, he was about to speak, when the shopkeeper called to a salesman:

"John, show this gentleman the world."

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87 - The Prerogative of Might
Rejected Services - 89
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