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  2. Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

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    The adage was a submission credited in print to Ronald M. Hanlon of Bronx, New York , in a compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). [1] A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941). [2]

  3. Villain - Wikipedia

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    Count Dracula is an example of a villain in classic literature and film. Theme from Mysterioso Pizzicato, a cliché silent movie cue for villainy Play ⓘ. A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction.

  4. Malleus Maleficarum - Wikipedia

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    The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

  5. Malcontent - Wikipedia

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    The malcontent is an objective or quasi-objective voice that comments on the play's concerns as though somehow above or beyond them. [citation needed] The concept has much to do with the Renaissance idea of humorism and a surfeit of "black bile" which caused melancholy.

  6. Malice aforethought - Wikipedia

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    This [malice aforethought] is the grand criterion, which now distinguishes murder from other killing: and this malice prepense, malitia praecogitata, is not so properly spite or malevolence to the deceased in particular, as any evil design in general; the dictate of a wicked, depraved, and malignant heart: un disposition a faire un male chose [an inclination to do an evil thing]: and it may be ...

  7. The Mouse and His Child - Wikipedia

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    The story tells of their beginning in a toy store, their purchase and eventual discarding, their pursuit by a malicious rat, and their quest to become self-winding. Like E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, the book contrasts with much of children's literature by its occasional advanced vocabulary and willingness to include adult themes.

  8. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    An evil, "cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot". [108] The antonym of a villain is a hero. The villain's structural purpose is to serve as the opposition of the hero character and their motives ...

  9. Malicious Intent - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Malicious Intent may refer to: Malicious Intent; Malicious Intent; Bad faith; This page was ...