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
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“AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices…”
- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
- Work
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Year
- 1911
- Chapter / part
- Entry: Age
- Length
- 29 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #972
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