"Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine..."

"Doctor Dubble L. Dee"

"Mr. Mumblethumb"

"The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the region just below the small of the back—although, most unaccountably, this deformity was looked on altogether in the li…"

"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."