Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

TRUCE, n. Friendship.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.