Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ★ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling. ★ Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ★ Conservative: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ★ Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. ★ Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. ★ The covers of this book are too far apart. ★ Compromise: Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ★ Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ★ Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ★ Revolution: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ★ Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. ★ Deliberation: The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on