Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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

A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.