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

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.