OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.