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. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "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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Admonition	Ancient	Familiar	Fortuitous
General	Happiness	Immune	Innocent
Instance	Manifestation	Merely	Natures
Objectionableness	Pharaoh	Plague	Punishment
Purposeless	Ruler	Times	Today

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