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

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

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

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.