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1.                 From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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.