Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is …

Ambrose Bierce
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.133, University of Georgia Press
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.172, 谷月社
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of … ▶
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's … ▶
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2013). The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged, p.42, Courier Corporation
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.241, 谷月社

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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