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What does it mean?
Beelzebub gets dressed nicely in the morning.
In plain terms
The devil gets dressed up early.
What can you take from it?
Even dark figures care about appearance.

Where it applies

  • storytelling
  • moral tales
  • satire

Putting it to work

  • notice appearances
  • use satire
  • read between lines

Questions to consider

  • Why does the devil dress up?
  • What is this about?

Another view

This is a fragment and hard to interpret deeply.

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