The Devil's Dictionary: Childhood

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
CERBERUS
CHRISTIAN

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.

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