To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.