Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.