A man is known by the company he organizes.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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