The Devil's Dictionary: Rich

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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RICH

-adj.

Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.

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