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• Age, n.: That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
  Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi....
• RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing....
• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured.
  Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914)...
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....
• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel
  and fitter for new projects than for settled business....