Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.