SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.