That a play, a novel, or a short story with a happy ending is necessarily a commercialized and inartistic piece of work.
§76
That a person who follows up a cucumber salad with a dish of ice-cream will inevitably be the victim of cholera morbus.
§77
That a Sunday School superintendent is always carrying on an intrigue with one of the girls in the choir.
§78
That it is one of the marks of a gentleman that he never speaks evil of a woman.
§79
That a member of the Masons cannot be hanged.