You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

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

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

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

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

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.