Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.