PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.