Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.