MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.