NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance... The Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.