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Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

Youth looks forward, for nothing is behind! Age backward, for nothing is before.

Ambrose Bierce
Age, Looks, Youth
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Ambrose Bierce
Past, Yesterday, Age
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.242, University of Georgia Press

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

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Eye, Thinking, Age
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Ambrose Bierce
Life, Time, Age
Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

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Age
Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

Ambrose Bierce
Baby, Sex, Age
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Ambrose Bierce
Funny, Age, Nervous
Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.842, Library of America

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

Ambrose Bierce
Children, Maturity, Age

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