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• Infancy, n.: The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us.
  The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. -- Ambrose Bierce...
• Heaven lies about us in our infancy. -- William Shakespeare
• Half the lies our opponents tell about us are not true.
• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum.
  Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood....
• CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• We are the people our parents warned us about.