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

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.