Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1842 Death: 1914
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is..
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions..
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested..
Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly..
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate..
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids..
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins..
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like..
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil….
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go..
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampes….
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution..
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress..
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue..
Example is better than following it..
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living..
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C..
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo..
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past..
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him..
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion..