Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BiercePLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
Ambrose BierceAPHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697
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