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.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.