The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Doubt is the father of invention.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .