TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.