Hair-splitting and Bald Fact.

Youth is an explorer of the hinterlands of Heresy, and no doubt the great adulterated are often useful as life-savers at the brink of the falls; but too often the adulterated wave the red flag while yet the roar of the rapids resembles the whisper of a spent water melon.

Youth must break and err before it can take the air, and the plane of life cannot rise until it has gathered speed on the runaway. After all, mistakes are only experiences which have missed the spot marked X, and if ignorance is bliss, knowledge often is blisters. Thus we echo the policy of the insurance agent, “‘tis better to have lived and lost than never to have lived at all.”

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