"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."
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"Not yet hardened, many young die good."
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"If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life."
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"When I was young, boys didn't type."
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"When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death."
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."
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"I feel like a young man of 15."
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"As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself."
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"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age."
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"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore"
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"I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self."
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"But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
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"Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning."
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"The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril."
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"Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men."
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"Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]"
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"Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]"
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"Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman."
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"The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon."
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