OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

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

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.