Noise: A Stench In The Ear.

A Popular Writer Writes About What People Think. A Wise Writer Offers Them Something To Think About.

Rite, N. A Religious Or Semi-religious Ceremony Fixed By Law, Precept Or Custom, With The Essential Oil Of Sincerity Carefully Squeezed Out Of It.

If You Would Be Accounted Great By Your Contemporaries, Be Not Too Much Greater Than They.

Inexpedient: Not Calculated To Advance One's Interests.

Cerberus, N. The Watch-dog Of Hades, Whose Duty It Was To Guard The Entrance - Against Whom Or What Does Not Clearly Appear; Everybody, Sooner Or Later, Had To Go There, And Nobody Wanted To Carry Off The Entrance.