Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of…

Ambrose Bierce
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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 (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.34, University of Georgia Press
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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 (2001). The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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