REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.