an-ti-dote

Updated: June 6, 2025

I'll be too busy indoors to use him." The girl and her cavalier took but a short gallop. They had nearly got back to the grove gate when he ventured upon a personal speech; but it was only to charge her with the art of blundering cleverly. She assured him that her blunders were all nature and her art accident. "Whenever I want to be witty I get into a hurry, and haste is the an-ti-dote of wit."

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner