ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

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

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.