Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.