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🗓️ 22 May 2017
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0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill, with square wheels! |
0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. |
0:18.0 | Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill. |
0:20.0 | Wuho! |
0:21.0 | On a tandem! |
0:22.0 | Alright, mate! With a mass sir on the back. |
0:25.0 | Oh that's nice. |
0:26.0 | Search zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. The The Welcome to 1001 Classic Short stories and tales. |
1:03.0 | Today's story is from one of my favorite classic authors, Ambrose Bierce. |
1:07.4 | Bierce was an American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer. |
1:11.8 | In Bierce's lifetime lifetime eminent critic William Dean Howell said, |
1:15.8 | Mr Beres is among our three greatest writers. When told this, Beres' |
1:20.9 | responded, I am sure Mr. Howells is the other two. Today Beres is best known for his howlingly funny book, |
1:28.7 | The Devil's Dictionary, which was named as one of the hundred greatest masterpieces of American literature |
1:34.6 | by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration |
1:37.8 | for his story |
1:38.8 | an occurrence at Al Creek Bridge |
1:41.0 | one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature, |
1:45.9 | and for his book, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, which was named by the Grolier Club |
1:50.7 | as one of the hundred most influential American books printed before 1900. |
1:55.0 | In addition, Biers has been called the one genuine wit that these states have ever seen |
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