The Devil's Dictionary: Infancy

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
INEXPEDIENT
INFERIAE

INFANCY

-n.

The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

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