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Definition of Responsibility

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  RESPONSIBILITY   noun
A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.  In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
  Alas, things ain't what we should see
  If Eve had let that apple be;
  And many a feller which had ought
  To set with monarchses of thought,
  Or play some rosy little game
  With battle-chaps on fields of fame,
  Is downed by his unlucky star
  And hollers:  'Peanuts! -- here you are!'

'The Sturdy Beggar'
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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