USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

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.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.