EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.