Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.