The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.