Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.