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

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.