RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular nov…

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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.187, 谷月社
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.187, 谷月社

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