WednesdayNov 19, 2025
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PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives and bend the forks! That's what Bilbo hates Smash the bottles and burn the corks! Cut the cloth and tread on the fat! Pour the milk on the pantry floor! Leave the bones on the bedroom mat! Splash the wine on every door! Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl; Pound them up with a thumping pole; And when you've finished, if any are whole, Send them down the hall to roll! That's what Bilbo Baggins hates! So, carefully! carefully! with the plates!
John Ronald Reuel 'J. R. R.' Tolkien
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from ... the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
John Boynton Priestley
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