Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.