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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idioc

Childhood: 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

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