Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. ✨ Ambrose Bie…

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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.10, 谷月社
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.17, 谷月社
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors wh … ▶
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.72, Univ … ▶
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry … ▶

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.10, 谷月社

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