PHILOSOPHER.—Whose taste?
F.—Why, that of people of culture.
PH.—Do any of these people chance to have a taste for intoxication, tobacco, hard hats, false hair, the nude ballet, and over-feeding?
F.—Possibly; but in intellectual matters you must confess their taste is correct.
PH.—Why must I?
F.—They say so themselves.
PHILOSOPHER.—I have been thinking why a dolt is called a donkey.
FOOL.—I had thought philosophy concerned itself with a less personal class of questions; but why is it?
PH.—The essential quality of a dolt is stupidity.