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• ADOLESCENCE: The stage between puberty and adultery.
• Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.
• Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery.
• PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding.
  A tyranny tempered by stenography. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Peace, n.: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a _liaison_ between a bald head and a bank account.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...