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A.Word.A.Day--striplingPronunciation: WAV or RealAudiostripling (STRIP-ling) noun An adolescent youth. [Middle English, possibly from strip.] "He (Tryambakrai Mazmudar) was an experienced man of mature age and knew the world. I was yet a stripling of eighteen without any experience of the world." M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth, 1927. This week's theme: words from Gandhi's autobiography.
X-BonusD'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. -W. Somerset Maugham, novelist, dramatist, short-story writer (1874-1965) [Of Human Bondage]
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