An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

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

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.