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Plagiarism: 1. Taking something from one man and making it worse; 2. Stealing a ride on someone’s train of thought; 3. Failure to adorn stolen ideas with footnotes, as opposed to scholarship, which repeatedly acknowledges the theft.
I found some humor in the above, thought I'd post.
MightyQueen-I don't remember chiffarobe from Silence. I'll have to watch it again. Virgode and I remembered it from To Kill a Mockingbird. Once you hone in on a word like that, you suddenly hear it often. Another phrase I like...
Face the music!
It's better than facing a firing squad.
I believe the word was in the book as part of the description of Clarice Starling's West Virginia background, but I don't believe it was in the movie.
It was a long time ago that I read it, so I hope my memory is correct.
"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough." Mark Twain
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