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

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.