You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.