"It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful."
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"The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth."
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"He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living."
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"I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life."
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"I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth."
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"I went to an all-girls boarding school for most of my youth. We used to do stupid, fun girly things like pull tights over our faces and streak through the lacrosse pitch. And once I snogged the gardener."
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"Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?"
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"Avarice is rarely the vice of youth."
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"What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth."
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"I go to school the youth to learn the future."
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"If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation."
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"Youth now flees on feathered foot."
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"in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized."
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"Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up."
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"War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so."
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"Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again."
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"I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance."
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"It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future"
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"i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself"
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"Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth."
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