Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.