Noise: a stench in the ear.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

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

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.