Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Noise: a stench in the ear.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.