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

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.