The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Twice – Once too often.