EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.