Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bysta…

Ambrose Bierce
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Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.202, University of Georgia Press
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