Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.