CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.