A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

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.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.