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

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.