REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although …

Ambrose Bierce
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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. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.200, University of Georgia Press
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