The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.