I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.