What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.