satire
“Flesh, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.”
“Accord, n. Harmony.”
“Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”
“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.”
“Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.”
“Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward a straiter resemblance to the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death, and the hope of Hell.”
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“Difficile est saturam non scribere.”