Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.