Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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