Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

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.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.