Income, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
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Tariff, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
Indifferent, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
Immigrant, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
Immoral, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
Degradation, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
Inauspiciously, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable.
Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
Some heathens whose Idol was greatly weatherworn threw it into a river, and erecting a new one, engaged in public worship at its base. “What is this all about?” inquired the New Idol. “Father of Joy and Gore,” said the High Priest, “be patient and I will instruct you in the doctrines and rites of […]
