HAPPINESS, n. an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

INTIMACY, n. a relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

MINE, adj. belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

MISFORTUNE, n. the kind of fortune that never misses.

MORE, adj. the comparative degree of too much.

PATIENCE, n. a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

PHILOSOPHY, n. a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

POLITENESS, n. the most acceptable hypocrisy.

--

useful information about certain nationalities