TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.