RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property …

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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.201, University of Georgia Press
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.201, University of Georgia Press

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