Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose BierceExperience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose BierceLEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
Ambrose Bierce