In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

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.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.