Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."