Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the o…

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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.48, 谷月社
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.48, 谷月社

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