Amazon.com description: Product Description: POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep. BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens. ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments