He laughs best who laughs least.
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.