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 happine to know it is merely Nature’s fortuitous manifestation of her purposele objectionablene . PLAN, v. t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. 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 fo il sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A dem i-ta e of milk-and-morality. The Pope’s-nose of a featherle peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram. 260