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Ambrose Bierce föddes den 24 Juli 1842 och dog den 11 Januar 1914 - US writer
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 PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

 PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

 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.

 PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

 PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

 PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

 PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

 PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.

 PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

 PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

 PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

 PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

 PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

 PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.

 PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.


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