The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce

PLAGIARIZE

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PLAGUE

—n.

In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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