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.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.