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• Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
  They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe yea...
• Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
  They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe yea...
• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar.
  We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them....
• Dawn, n.: The time when men of reason go to bed.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....