One definition of an American is that he is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. As such, he wants a job, but hates to pay taxes. If he needs a job, he demands that the government provide it one way or another.

This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of [myself].

Not for an instant do I wish to imply all show homer men would act so contemptibly, though it is a fact this has been done, and may be done again, unless the name is altered from the workinghomer to something that will readily distinguish the real article from the one that owns a title so apt to mislead.

The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.